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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
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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."