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- From: goaway@frii.com (Steve Schmidt)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Help Pls, A530 on 500 trouble
- Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 17:46:08 +0000
- Organization: NUN
- Distribution: world
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- References: <AD0F350E96683C410@fc-14.ppp.frii.com> <19960103.478880.97FD@ak087.du.pipex.com>
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- In article <19960103.478880.97FD@ak087.du.pipex.com>,
- m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry) wrote:
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- >
- >The fan should always be on in the A530. Since it wasn't on when you first
- >started up I suspect something has overheated and died. Which chip has blown
- >is hard to tell, though I have a nasty feeling it could be the 68030 CPU,
- >which runs pretty hot anyway, even when the fan is running. Cooling around
- >the '030 is hampered by the hard drive directly above it, and the lack of
- >air flow due to the fan may have proved to be the final straw. Nasty.
- >
- >--Mat.
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- Thanks Mat,
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- I have one (or two) more question.
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- Is it worth fixing?
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- Where would I send it? Who's honest?
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- Thanks again,
- Steve
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