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Old 09-09-2005, 06:56 PM   #6
RSawdey
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Super overspec'd cables are a waste of money.

You should never connect or disconnect any cables while the devices are powered up. You can burn out your input/output ports. A very few types of connections are meant to be 'hot plugged', like PCMCIA cards on a laptop.
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