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From: vic@bobkat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Help with C64 sound chip problems
Message-ID: <1030@bobkat.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-May-87 12:30:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: bobkat.1030
Posted: Thu May 28 12:30:51 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jun-87 04:58:41 EDT
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Reply-To: vic@bobkat.UUCP (Vic Sohal)
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In article <225@jplpro.JPL.NASA.GOV> oscar@jplpro.UUCP (Oscar "Fred" DeMartino) writes:
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>All of the estimates that I have gotten to fix it have been so high that it
>would be just as cheap to buy a new C64.
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>PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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>
>Oscar DeMartino

Your best bet would be to cut the old SID chip out of your '64 (cut it at the 
leads coming out of the chip) and solder a new SID chip to the leads which
remain attached to the circuit board. You can probably purchase a new SID chip 
from a commodore repair shop for about $15 (I may be off by a couple of 
dollars about that). Just be careful not to apply too much heat to the new 
chip when you solder it in. Another way to go, may be to solder a socket in 
place of the old chip, and plug the new SID chip into the socket, that way 
if the chip burns out again, you can simply plug another one in!!

                                      Vic Sohal