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- From: Steve Neas <sneas@delphi.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Serial port fuses
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 96 19:43:36 -0500
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- Steve Neas <sneas@delphi.com> writes:
-
- >My serial port was recently damaged by a lightning strike through
- >the phone line and modem. The port no longer works and I heard
- >a suggestion that a fuse may have been blown. I located four of
- >the fuses (LittleFuse Pico-II 4A) on the same general area of the
- >motherboard and attempted to test them. I measured no resistance
- >and no voltage drop across each of them, with the computer either
- >on or off. This seems to indicate that they are all OK, but it's
- >tough to say with them still on the board. There is also no
- >visible damage or deformation to them.
-
- I forgot to mention that I'm talking about an A3000 here.
-
- -Steve
- sneas@delphi.com
-