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From: john@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (John Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: HELP!
Message-ID: <437@viper.Lynx.MN.Org>
Date: 21 Dec 87 23:17:38 GMT
References: <19871211171917.3.JRD@GRACKLE.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> <3162@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <907@atari.UUCP> <1309@water.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: john@viper.UUCP (John Stanley)
Organization: DynaSoft Systems
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In article <1309@water.waterloo.edu> ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) writes:
 >In article <907@atari.UUCP> neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris) writes:
 >...
 >>Sounds like the proverbial "loose chips" problem.  Open up the 1040, press
 >>down on all the socketed chips, and chances are your drive will magically
 >>start working.
 >
 >I have not had this problem, but I wonder, would it be a good idea to
 >press down all the socketed chips from time to time, say once every 6
 >months or so?

  No...  The best response to this question is the old standby phrase:

	"If it works, don't fix it."

  If the chips are well seated, opening the case, pressing on them and
then replacing the case will, with time, tend to loosen them when there 
was nothing wrong to begin with...

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John Stanley (john@viper.UUCP)
Software Consultant - DynaSoft Systems
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