Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!DIALix!metapro!bernie From: bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: A3000 Can't take the heat Message-ID: <1991Jun3.140816.10385@metapro.DIALix.oz.au> Date: 3 Jun 91 14:08:16 GMT References: <21985@cbmvax.commodore.com> Organization: MetaPro Systems, Perth, Western Australia Lines: 22 In <21985@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: >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 :-) Would _you_ buy a machine designed by this man? :-) >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. -- Bernd Felsche, _--_|\ #include Metapro Systems, / sold \ Fax: +61 9 472 3337 328 Albany Highway, \_.--._/ Phone: +61 9 362 9355 Victoria Park, Western Australia v Email: bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au