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From: dave@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Dave Goldblatt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Dead 810 Drive
Message-ID: <1785@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 1 Dec 88 15:49:09 GMT
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From article <152@lakesys.UUCP>, by roy@lakesys.UUCP (Roy Duvall):
> Re: dead drive but power supply test ok.
> The problem on my 810 was the 40pin socket between the powerboard and
> the driver board was bad.  My question was and still is how can a
> connector/socket go bad if you didn't take them apart?  But it fixed
> the no power problem!   How this helps.    -roy y

If you've ever taken the connectors apart (and probably if you haven't),
you may have some corrosion on the pins.  This happened a number of times.
A combination of contact cleaner and a little sandpaper cured it.

-dg-

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