A friend and I just installed an adspeed and adIDE/Quantum 52lps IDE into his
500. I connected the 6 watt consuming hard drive to the floppy power connector
and everything seemed to work fine (note: this system has a bigfoot power supply). Shortly later some pixels on the screen (of a certain color) start to flicker. Feeling the denise chip, it seems to be quite warm and when a fan is applied to the chip the flickering stops after a short while. Another note: the flick-
ering does not start until the system is on for awhile. Is it possible that we
might have zapped the denise chip while installing, by a static chrg? Would it
heat up like this if it had an internal problem? This problem persists even
after we remove the shuffleboard (boot floppy shifter) and the hard drive.
Could the power circuit to the denise chip somehow have got damaged? My friend
is quite distraut with this development, so any helpful suggestions would be