Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cica!ctrsol!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!indri!caesar!blake!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a218 From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Re^2: Amigas in the big picture. Message-ID: <428@mindlink.UUCP> Date: 31 Jul 89 21:07:00 GMT Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada Lines: 32 In article <7416@ecsvax.UUCP> utoddl@ecsvax.UUCP (Todd M. Lewis) writes:> Another problem that I can't understand is that some chips >want to crawl out of their sockets. I can only assume that cheap >sockets are to blame. Once _Amiga_World_ even recommended >banging the A500 on your knee a few times to reseat the graphics >chip for a few more days. I heard a service tech. advise a friend >to try dropping his A500 about 6 inches onto the table to >reseat his chips before bringing his system in FOR THE 3RD TIME >for the same problem. The first time I heard of this problem, the solution was known as "the Atari twist." That's right, it happens to the ST too. I once worked on a mainframe that was having intermittent problems that disappeared when we started leaving it powered up 24 hours a day; the servicemen figured that the temperature cycling was making chips crawl out of their sockets. I guess some things never change. BTW I'm writing this on an Amiga 1000 that I've had for nearly 3 1/2 years. I finally took the cover off a few weeks ago just to see whether it had everyone's signatures inside (it does). But it still runs perfectly, except for once in a while when my two SOTS boards (a 2-meg RAM expansion and a Wedge hard disk interface) start to crawl out of their sockets. :-) I already bought another Commodore computer, but I can't get at the 2500 right now because my wife is painting the basement floor... Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP "Programmers who write small modules have short attention spans."