Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!dave 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 References: <152@lakesys.UUCP> Sender: dave@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Lines: 16 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- Internet: dave@sun.soe.clarkson.edu or: dave@clutx.clarkson.edu BITNET: dave@CLUTX.Bitnet uucp: {rpics, gould}!clutx!dave Matrix: Dave Goldblatt @ 1:260/360 ICBM: 75 02 00W 44 38 12N