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From: spencer@eris.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Oops! Bang goes the Amiga.
Message-ID: <2684@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 21:51:54 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  4 21:51:54 1987
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Well, my Amiga that made it through a major car wreck this summer finally 
got sick.  Not like it doesn't deserve a break, I carry it with me everywhere,
I open it up and swap disk drives when I need extra ones, I put a 68010
chip in and broke off the lid screw holes so the case won't go back together
again.  But I love my Amiga, I really do.  Now it is sick and I have to take
care of it.  I guess it was the 3 days of displaying an astronomy program
for my company at the Commodore Show here that did it in.  I now get Blue
and Red on the output video, but no Green (and I thought sick things turned
green).  So I traced the signal back to where there actually was something
and it is on the other side of a transistor labeled Q2 on the board.  There
is a big "G" there, bet that means green!  The Transistor has:
  C3504
  E-5H
written on the flat side of it.  I called Radio Shack and they were clueless,
and I called some electronics speciality shops in Berkeley and they needed
some other reference number.  I tried to call Commodore the last 3 days
with no luck (it's like calling Sony or Amtrack, don't companies this large
ever try calling themselves and find out that the danm number is _Always_
busy, all day, and then suddenly you get through only to hear a recording 
that says the business hours and hangs up, even though it's still during
those business hours!)  So I put it out to the net.  My dealer can swap
chips, but board level repair requires sending the mother board to Commodore,
for a stupid 34 cent transistor.  Does anyone know the real number I need to
give my electronics dealer to get the transistor?

These news posting programs should have a little detector to tell when you
are posting something out of frustration and ask you to post later on.
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