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- From: dieter@prosys.co.at (Dieter Sabathi)
- Subject: Re: A4000/030 Motherboard Needs Fixing...
- References: <1996Mar26.180939.7509@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 96 18:25:57 MEZ
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- In article <1996Mar26.180939.7509@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> A.Craig@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Alex...) writes:
- > Hi all,
- > Why? Well, I've been given an old A4000/030 that was damaged by its
- > original owner when he tried to install the Kickstart 3.1 ROMs -- we
- > don't know exactly what he did wrong, but it appears the ROMs were
- > inserted the wrong way round (either back-to-front or the HI ROM in the
- > LO ROM sockect and vice-versa...). How the blew up the motherboard
- > god knows, but it did (I've tested it by pulling bits out of my
- > A4000/040, and it defiantly appears the motherboard has gone...
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- Take a close look to the Kickstart sockets and the printboard below them.
- A customer of us killed the wires with a screwdriver when he was installing
- kick 3.1 on his own .....
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- Maybe that helps
- Dieter
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