Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!msi.umn.edu!math.fu-berlin.de!unido!rwthinf!tabaqui!rabe From: rabe@tabaqui.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Ralf Bergs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: Open HP28S case ? 4 FAIL ??? Keywords: HP28,broken Message-ID: Date: 15 May 91 10:43:34 GMT Article-I.D.: tabaqui.rabe.674304214 References: <13165@dog.ee.lbl.gov> Sender: news@rwthinf.UUCP Lines: 22 envwpk@epb2.lbl.gov (Werner P. Keilholz) writes: [..] >I wonder whether anybody ever tried to open the case of a hp28S ? >I would never ask such a brutal question if my hp28S wasn't broken,... >it says "4 FAIL" upon self-test. So my last hope is to find the >usual loose wire inside, but how to *get* inside ??? [..] You definitely won't find any loose wires inside the case. It's all in SMT, two PLCC chips only. There is a parisian handheld club called PPC who managed to open the case (even to close it again!!!). Maybe you should try to get into contact with'em. >Werner CU, Ralf -- smail: Ralf G. R. Bergs, H"uckeswagener Str. 42, D-5270 Gummersbach-Windhagen phone: (+49) 22 61-2 19 68 email: rabe@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de