Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!lethe!comspec!darrell From: darrell@comspec.uucp (Darrell Grainger) Subject: Re: A3000 Can't take the heat Organization: Comspec Communications Inc Toronto Ontario Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 17:28:53 GMT Message-ID: <1991Jun5.172853.7309@comspec.uucp> References: <21985@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Jun3.140816.10385@metapro.DIALix.oz.au> Sender: darrell@comspec (Darrell Grainger) In article <1991Jun3.140816.10385@metapro.DIALix.oz.au> bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche) writes: >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? :-) I think the problem here wouldn't be a design fault but more a production fault. Maybe this is way the Amiga is not manufactured in the US. :-) >>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 -- Darrell Grainger % Comspec Communications Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada darrell@comspec % Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are my own. (416) 617-1475 % (416) 633-5605 (416)785-3553