If you were operating the HD outside of it's operating parameters, it  
may have slowly rolled over and died.  if you were not, semi- 
conductors individually  die at unpredictable times due to individual  
defects  .  Your HD may have felt it's duty was done.
MA

> On Dec 30, 2008, at 10:15 PM, solarwind wrote:
>
> I swear I don't know how this happened, but today one of those
> "bubble" ICs on my HD44780 LCD quite literally "popped" and filled my
> room with the foul smell of burnt semiconductor. Now my LCD module is
> rendered to be pretty much useless. How could this have happened? It
> was connected to my parallel port, happily displaying stuff and this
> incident happened spontaneously. I did nothing...
>
> -- 
> solarwind
>
>


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