Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!world!unixland!achilles From: achilles@unixland.uucp (David Holland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: PLUS Hardcard20 needs repair. Where and how (much)? Message-ID: <0qmyV3w163w@unixland.uucp> Date: 18 Jan 91 08:00:20 GMT References: <1991Jan16.201413.15873@d.cs.okstate.edu> Sender: bbs@unixland.uucp (Waffle BBS) Organization: The Think_Tank BBS & Public-Access Unix Lines: 24 ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) writes: > Does anyone have a PLUS hardcard that fails? The one we put one > our Compaq portable just did. I thought it might be the > banging that a portable takes, but apperantly the controller > on the card went bad. A couple of the custom chips are dead cold > when in operation as opposed to the rest being warm. We would > have thrown the thing away except that we are still interested > in some files we have on the card. Has anybody gone thru the > process (of repairing a hardcard) before? How much do they > want? That happened to us about a year ago. One night I discovered a bunch of read errors; they got markedly worse when I ran some disk-test utilities. It turned out to be thermal in nature: the more you ran the disk, the worse it got. We managed to copy off everything we needed since the last backup, and we replaced the card with a new one. (We decided that repair was not economical.) ------------ David A. Holland Internet: pro-angmar!achilles@alphalpha.com UUCP: uunet!alphalpha!pro-angmar!achilles #include Note - if alphalpha bounces, try "alfalfa" instead. #include As a LAST RESORT use Fidonet 1:322/337.