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Date:      Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:44:05 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org, msmith@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: AARGH!! "dead" Alpha 164SX (Was: Re: OK, any pointers on how to use SRM? :-)) 
Message-ID:  <199906251644.JAA03228@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Jun 1999 22:34:28 %2B0800." <19990625143428.6214475@overcee.netplex.com.au> 

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> 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




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