From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jun 25 9:47:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles520.castles.com [208.214.165.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E9F6150CF; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:47:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA03228; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:44:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199906251644.JAA03228@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Peter Wemm Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org, msmith@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AARGH!! "dead" Alpha 164SX (Was: Re: OK, any pointers on how to use SRM? :-)) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Jun 1999 22:34:28 +0800." <19990625143428.6214475@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:44:05 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Well, the problem has been found.. Mike Smith gave me a new graphoil pad > to use since the heatsink was taken off for transit.. But the new one was > bigger than required and the thought never occurred that it might have been > rather conductive and that it was going to short out those 12 capacitors on > the top of the CPU surface, which, BTW, were between 3.3V and ground. "Aargh shit". I never even thought to check that. > It all makes sense now. "Aargh Shit!" certainly seems appropriate. > Anyway, after some careful trimming of the pad, I've now got it running to > the point of SRM startup... (And there was I thinking I'd found a hairline > crack in one of the mounts for a component from transit damage in my > luggage..) Whee, happiness! -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message