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From: bpv9073@sjfc.UUCP (Brett VanSprewenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Fat AGNUS outgrowing it's socket!!
Message-ID: <1782@sjfc.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 91 00:27:50 GMT
References: <1991May08.185945.11611@dialogic.com>
Reply-To: bpv9073@sjfc.UUCP (Brett VanSprewenburg)
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Organization: Saint John Fisher College, Rochester, NY
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In article <1991May08.185945.11611@dialogic.com> kamran@dialogic.com (Kamran Vaziri) writes:
>I have an A500 with a rev 5 mother board and I'm constantly having to reseat
>the AGNUS chip.  It'll work for a while, anywhere from 30min-5hrs, then the
>computer locks up and I get a garbled screen.  When I reboot, the screen stops
>on green and the power light blinks.  I'm at the point where I just keep the
>cover off because it's such a hassle taking it off everytime I use the thing.

When I upgraded the Agnus in my A500 to the 1 meg version, I did some
preventive maitanence. With my chip puller, because of the tiny little
'hook' on the end of it, I pried out EACH of the about 250,000 little
contacts (exaggerated number) in the Agnus socket so as to make good 
contact with the new chip. I didn't really pull on them that hard, 
just a little respringing of them. Could be a bad contact in your socket,
and the heating of the Agnus chip DOES make it move, so you may want to
check those contacts. If you do this, be careful, those contacts are small
and look fragile. Not responsible for damage etc, etc...

Obligitory quote: "If you can't enjoy yourself, enjoy someone else."

==Brett