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Article #41745Re: Flaky 1040st
From: HC Johnson
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 15:04
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 15:04
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In article <9003072218.AA03079@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>, cantwell@VUSE.VANDERBILT.EDU (Jeff Cantwell) writes: > Help! My 3 year old 1040ST seems to be getting a bit flaky lately. I > get frequent bombs when trying to run software that used to be fine. Open it up and reseat the socketed chips. While this applies to the ROMS and Video shifter, it is particularly important to pull out and reinstall the little square ones in a 4 sided socket. (MMU to you). It makes only light contact with its fingers and can cause all kinds of sickness. BTW this is what the "drop it on the floor" remedies are trying to do, only its a lot safer to just reseat the chips. Howard C. Johnson ATT Bell Labs att!lzsc!hcj hcj@lzsc.att.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!lzsc!hcj From: hcj@lzsc.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Flaky 1040st Summary: reseat the socketed chips Message-ID: <1379@lzsc.ATT.COM> Date: 9 Mar 90 15:04:30 GMT References: <9003072218.AA03079@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> Organization: AT&T BL Middletown/Lincroft NJ USA Lines: 17