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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:50:00 EST
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- From: "D.E. 'Dave' Bloomberg" <BLOOMBER@FAUVAX.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: durability
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- Hi again,
-
- I agree with Greg, most of our model 30's have weak or dead
- batteries. The problems with the hard drives I mentioned have
- been mostly related to a mechanical failure, or a boot sector
- gone dead. Neither of these are related to CMOS configurations
- to my knowledge. Can anybody shed some light??
-
- We also had a couple old Seagate hard drives that exhibited "sticky
- drive" syndrome, where the lubricant they used "gummed" up, so the
- drive wouldn't spin up to speed, thereby rendering it dead, even
- though it would otherwise have worked.
-
- The other problems have been definite chip failures. We have had
- 2 IBM 50Z's blow chips that required a mother board swap; since
- our repair service does this rather than a component level fix,
- it works for us.
-
- I am at the point now where any purchases I suggest would be less
- integrated systems where the video,... are on separate cards.
-
- The highly integrated mama boards are slick to be sure, but when
- they blow, it can drop your whole system.
-
-
- Dave Bloomberg
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