14:58 <Iskierka> just let magic smoke out of sister's laptop

15:00 <Pinkbeast> She's not, perhaps, overcome with joy?

15:01 <Iskierka> it's an old one, the one she actually uses is way off with her in uni

15:01 <Iskierka> I'm just impressed that managed to happen with (theoretically) no power supplied whatsoever

15:01 <Pinkbeast> What happened?

15:02 <UmbralRaptop> o_O

15:03 <Iskierka> my own laptop's screen stopped responding this weekend. bought a new cable from ebay, still not working. noticed sister's laptop has a (phsyically) compatible connector on the panel - and they're completely different brands both using eDP, so you'd think electrical compatibility too. Plugged that into own laptop - before even pressing power button, sparks flaring off 6-pin components labelled D01 and D02

15:04 <Iskierka> I should clarify, different brands of screen to manufacturer and the panel manufacturer probably wants to just make one controller. should be easier to change the cable wiring than the PCB

15:06 <Iskierka> I imagine the components probably took the load of that and the cable's probably still fine to try with another screen?

15:07 <Pinkbeast> It was half an hour later that Iskierka came back with no eyebrows

15:07 <Iskierka> unfortunately I don't get another screen to try with until thursday

16:02 <Pinkbeast> I've been bashing on my Pi but so far no smoke has escaped

16:41 <Iskierka> have you tried plugging everything in wrogn?

16:42 <Pinkbeast> Only inasmuch as is conventionally done with USB cables

16:42 <Pinkbeast> I got it to run a Crawl server for complicated reasons & have slightly procrastinated it for weeks