help please! firewire smoke..

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Okay, so I'm at school and my friend was being annoying so i wanted to get a bit of revenge. I'm sticking my pencil in the FireWire port and suddenly his computer shuts off and there are sparks and a tiny bit of smoke coming out. He starts his computer up and its working fine, but I'm worried what happened!
 
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Doolittle2008 said:
Okay, so I'm at school and my friend was being annoying so i wanted to get a bit of revenge. I'm sticking my pencil in the FireWire port and suddenly his computer shuts off and there are sparks and a tiny bit of smoke coming out. He starts his computer up and its working fine, but I'm worried what happened!
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With freinds like this…who needs enemies!;)

The graphite in pencils can conduct electricity. So by poking a pencil into a computers port probably shorted out at least two of the wires. Very very lucky nothing was permanently damaged.

- Nick
 
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He starts his computer up and its working fine, but I'm worried what happened!
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How about the Firewire port, did you check it out to see if it was still functional? If it's not, that means you'll owe your friend a new logic board.... :Mischievous:
 
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Methinks you did a lot not little! Not real clever.
 
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Your friend should check the Firewire port! If it's dead like Chscag said, you own him a new board! In the future don't do that to anyones system.
 
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And logic boards only cost about $700.00!
 

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