Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-june Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!randy From: randy@uw-june (William Randy Day) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: IBM PC system board ruggedness Message-ID: <172@uw-june> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 00:09:27 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-june.172 Posted: Tue Aug 20 00:09:27 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 00:59:20 EDT Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 15 The other day my PC died with a bad system board error message. After some hex arithmatic, I determined the bad chip, pulled it, and pushed in a new 64k chip. That didn't fix the problem, so I pulled a few more chips in the general area and threw in new ones (hey, they're cheap). The problem was still not fixed, and I noticed the new chips were getting amazingly hot. Then I realized -- I was putting 64k chips in an old PC-1 system board that uses 16k chips! I wondered if I had blown-up my system board, but new 16k chips were all that was needed to fix the problem. It seems the system board can take a little bit of abuse. Randy Day. UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4}!uw-beaver!uw-june!randy ARPA: randy@washington CSNET: randy%washington@csnet-relay