Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Xorg
From: Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Flaky ST!
Message-ID: <13611@cup.portal.com>
Date: 16 Jan 89 13:51:05 GMT
References: <8901150021.AA01172@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Sounds very much like a loose connection or loose chips - especially
since you mention that its been repaired many times!  Open up the
case and make sure each chip is firmly seated in the board.  If
its not the chips or a loose connection then it could very well be
a tired drive mechanism that is reading disks as well as it used
to - get a drive speed checker from any major board and test your
drives RPMS - should be at 300RPM, 299-301 shouldn't cause problems
but any more than that is bad news.  This sounds like work for a
skilled techy.

Pete