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From: davidsen@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: fried motherboard?
Keywords: dumb   board fried motherboard
Message-ID: <10975@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Date: 13 Aug 90 20:57:30 GMT
References: <2051@sud509.ed.ray.com> <1990Aug10.201729.15148@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <1990Aug10.201729.15148@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> cy5@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Conway Yee) writes:
| In article <2051@sud509.ed.ray.com> heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com writes:
| >In the process of building a new machine, I think I did something REALLY
| >dumb.  I am putting a 386/25 board in a tower case, and basically 
| >followed the way the m/b in my AST 286 was set up.  That is, on the 
| >motherboard, where the screws go thru, there were metallic areas ... it
| >appears that AST has the motherboard grounded to the chassis.
| >
| >Well, I went along with this idea, and did the same on my 386 board in
| >the tower case.  When I powered the machine up, the power supply fan
| >wouldn't even start!  It appeared that maybe something was shorted out.
| >Anyway, I rummaged thru the ahrdware that came with the case, and found
| >some fiber washers.  I then re-installed the mb, using the washers to
| >insulate it from the chassis.  Now the system fires up, but the mb
| >seems brain-damaged.  

| Yes.  The darned thing is under warranty.  Let your vendor sort it out.
| Remember to swear on a stack of bibles that
| 	1) you did nothing wrong.
| 	2) you tried to replace everything else and it checks out OK.
| 	   Thus, it must be their fault.  They sent a fried board.
| Be sure to stand firm and insist on returning it.  Sometimes the sales
| people get to be real assholes when it comes to returns.


  You are a real piece of work. The original poster admits he shorted it
to ground, and you are telling him to defraud the dealer for it. And
obviously you are proud of this, since you posted rather than sent by
Email. You just tell the poster to swear on a stack of bibles that he
did nothing wrong when he admits he did.

  In my opinion your ethics are lower than whale droppings.
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	- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdgw1.crd.ge.com)
	GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8, KW-C206; Schenectady NY 12345