How to prevent your modem from getting 'bricked'

[drewmerc]

Removing power from a modem during to 'boot', then restoring it, even just once would/could 'brick' one of these no matter what firmware (hacked or otherwise) was used?

no not during boot, only while writing to flash even then it's rare or unlucky (i say it happen's to me because i play around with my modem alot, sometimes just to brick it, take today for example i have a spi based modem and my test clip is broken now i could just solder wires to it but instead i'm thinking i'll remove the spi chip and try using an sd card why you may ask, why not sd card can be accessed by spi so in my head this means it will work, anyways it'll pass the time and if it does work it'll be cool)

Just to understand, I have no fear or problem wandering thru the Windows registry, but these things have gotten me gun shy.

who mentioned the registry, setting a static ip is a normal part of windows networking (in your network adaptor settings)