Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: A3000 Can't take the heat Message-ID: <21918@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 25 May 91 02:30:15 GMT References: Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 25 In article rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick Francis Golembiewski) writes: > >When ever the temperature gets to be near 80 deg. F my A3000 seems to >become extreemly flaky. In the winter I could leave the machine >running continuously without any problems, however now that it's >summer if it's left on for an hour or so I can expect all kinds of >errors (the drive fails checksums, it guru's kind of randomly, file >requestors show lots of garbage, and ocassionally I'll get a crash to >a yellow screen). After letting the machine cool down a bit it works >fine again. Normal tricks for temperature faults: get it hot enough to fail and use freeze spray, or cool enough to work reliably and use a heat gun of some sort. Any good tech should have these skills in their repertoire. Places to start would be super-dmac, ramsey, etc. NOTE: doing this yourself is likely to void your warranty (or at least I don't know, and am covering my ...) If it's still under warranty, try again. If it isn't, you may be able to persuade them to try anyways since you brought it in before for the same problem. as usual, see my disclaimer... -- Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com BIX: rjesup Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion. "No matter where you go, there you are." - Buckaroo Banzai