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- From: jmunkki@vipunen.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
- Subject: Re: PB 140 boards are NOT replaced with PB 145 boards when upgraded
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.100820.4153@nntp.hut.fi>
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- Reply-To: jmunkki@vipunen.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
- References: <BzM9IC.MFr@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:08:20 GMT
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- In article <BzM9IC.MFr@acsu.buffalo.edu> feinberg@acsu.buffalo.edu (John A. Feinberg) writes:
- >A little while ago a rumour was floating around that PB 140's were upgraded to
- >PB 145's if their motherboards needed replacement. Well, that's not true.
- >Whatever chip is responsible for sound amplification blew in my PB 140, so I
- >sent it in, since it was still under warrantee. Well, I got it back a week and
- >a half later, with a brand new PB 140 motherboard.
-
- That chip is probably not on the CPU daughterboard, so they only
- replaced what was broken. The motherboard doesn't affect at what speed
- the daughterboard is running at, so replacing the motherboard with
- a part from a PB145 has no effect on system performance.
-
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