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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
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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.
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