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From: zeleznik@cs.utah.edu (Mike Zeleznik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Power supply problem in 10000s from 1988
Message-ID: <1990Sep4.101658.25949@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 4 Sep 90 16:16:58 GMT
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Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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In article <10373@pt.cs.cmu.edu> maf@speech2.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Franzini) writes:
>
>Has anyone else experienced power-supply problems with their
>Apollo 10000 purchased in 1988?  Specifically, I believe the
>problem has something to do with the +5V regulator in the
>power supply.  

We had to have it replaced.  It would just randomly cause the node to
crash.  The local FE told me it was a well known problem, I think with a
bad lot of capacitors that will fail early.

Mike

  Michael Zeleznik              Computer Science Dept.
                                University of Utah
  zeleznik@cs.utah.edu          Salt Lake City, UT  84112
                                (801) 581-5617