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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Path: news1.io.org!torfree!am131
- From: am131@torfree.net (Rick Belleville)
- Subject: Re: Amiga Trouble
- Message-ID: <DoJ1wL.Iut.0.queen@torfree.net>
- Organization: Toronto Free-Net
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- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 18:26:45 GMT
-
- DRBTorCAN (drbtorcan@aol.com) wrote:
- : This may sound simple, but take the "lid" off of your computer and turn it
- : on...wait until it crashes and then touch your finger tip lightly on each
- : and every chip.
- : If you ever notice one quite hot to the touch or you say, "OUCH!", you
- : likely have found your bad chip.
-
- Good advice. A month ago a friend of mine gave me a dead A500 and after
- powering it up I discovered a scorching hot chip. For $1 I had a fully
- working Amiga....the Gods were smiling on me that day (not often though!)
-
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- Rick Belleville | /// Commodore Amiga 500
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