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From: pat@cscnj.csc.COM (Patrick Hester)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Blown motherboard???
Summary: dead ST
Message-ID: <428@cscnj.csc.COM>
Date: 19 Oct 89 18:46:47 GMT
References: <2277@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Organization: Computer Sciences Corp., Piscataway NJ
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In article <2277@eagle.wesleyan.edu>, cdixon@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
> I took it to the local repair place and they said it was probably a blown
> mother board but they couldn't fix it (they just fix IBMs).  I sent my machine
> to an authorized service place, and I'm still waiting for the verdict.
> Anyways, does anyone know roughly how much it would cost if it is a blown
> mother board?  If so, is my machine totalled???

My power supply once went bad and sent 20 volts thru the 5 volt line.
Fried half the chips on the board. The service people didn't even try
to fix it. Instead, it cost me about $200 for a new one. But they had
to send the old one back to Atari and I had to wait a month or so.

On the plus side, my original ST was a very early model without RF.
The replacement was a little more up to date, so now I could videotape
my adventures on Time Bandits. Yay.

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