Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!uunet!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: A3000 Can't take the heat Message-ID: <21985@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 28 May 91 21:14:21 GMT References: Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 21 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. .... >Has anyone else out there had this problem with their A3000? I have never run into the problem myself (and C= offices get well beyond 80F in the summer, thanks to a chaotic cooling system). If you added the RAM chips, make sure that they're 80ns parts. Slower parts might work, most of the time, and fail when things get hot (which makes silicon slower). Make sure the chips are fully socketed; I had an A1000 hacked up with 512K of piggyback RAM that worked for nearly a year, but got flakey one hot August day. Apparently, I had missed soldering one pin, which made good contact until that hot day. Also, make absolutely sure your A3000 gets adequate ventilation. I have heard stories for years of people with systems that get flakey in the summertime, only to find out that they had them in stereo racks or other nearly airless places. -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight" -R.E.M.