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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Hopalong
Message-ID: <7027@well.UUCP>
Date: 5 Sep 88 08:55:25 GMT
References: <2581@sugar.uu.net> <4957@netnews.upenn.edu> <7004@well.UUCP> <8712@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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In article <8712@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com writes:
>[ ... ] when you tighten down the RFI shield, bizarre
>forces and torque are applied to the Hurricane setup.  SOME parts on the
>Hurricane (like the RAM's jumpers) "could" actually make intermittent
>contact with the underside of the RFI shield causing one's system to emit
>vulgar noises while flashing bright blue, green and yellow.
>
	Nope.  The problems persist with the cover completely removed.

>Also, you "could" be experiencing intermittent shorting to the WCS
>daughterboard [ ... ]

	Well, after spending 3+ hours at Ronin's offices with my setup, we
came to the following determination:  The system will usually fail when you
attempt to run '881 opcodes out of the ASDG RAM card when it's warm.
(Standing on my head had no effect.)  They were unable to trace the cause of
the bad interaction.  Both the '020 and the '881 were swapped, and a PAL on
the Ronin card was replaced.  It still frotzes out.  We did not try swapping
the whole Ronin board.

	I figure it will either cost me $5 or $1500 to fix this.  Either I
can put a muffin fan inside the ASDG cage to keep it cool enough to prevent
failure; or I'll have to buy 2M worth of Ronin's 32-bit memory, or an A2000
and a 2000-version Ronin card (since this sort of weird interaction doesn't
happen in a 2000).

	I'm hoping the fan works.

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