one time a friend of mine (a mod chipper) and i were arguing over which were better, softmods or chips. he asked me if i could boot off of an unlocked drive, but i told him that as long as you had a backup of your eeprom, that wouldn't happen. then i asked him if he had broken any xboxes, and he said "well yeah....but i'm sure you've screwed things up too". i said that yes, indeed, i had made some mistakes. but the biggest advantage of softmodding is that virtually everything is fixable, so long as you have a backup of the drives and the eeprom. i had screwed up a few xboxes, but had always been able to fix them after some xboxhdm work. then i told him that i had never written a script so bad that it had lit an xbox on fire. he looked kinda ashamed because apperantly you can do that with a soldering iron....and i laughed at him because i was sitting there when he did it.....
and the moral of the story is....i hope you have a backup of your drives and eeprom! because although you can't light it on fire, you can still mess your box up nicely!
and sure....here....have a cookie....

edit: i'm sorry....is it just me or does that cookie look totally unappetizing?