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From: med@druwy.ATT.COM (Myron Drapal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Flaky ST!
Message-ID: <3777@druwy.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 89 22:58:47 GMT
References: <8901150021.AA01172@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
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in article <8901150021.AA01172@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, V067MAJP@UBVMS.BITNET (Arion) says:
> 
> Help!
> I'm not sure watch to do with my ST. Anyone have any suggestions?
> (Before you start, let me list some symptoms.)
> VERY erratic behavior. Sometimes, it works perfectly, others it refuses to
> boot.

>                                 Any suggestions?
>                                                 John
> Bitnet: v067majp@ubvmsd
> (the others, who knows? I'm still new at this stuff, I'm still not sure what
> USENET is.)

One easy solution...  Gentle lift the ST up about 4 inches and drop *sharply*
on the tabletop.  This actually works much better than it sounds.  The chip
sockets for most of the ST's, especially the old ones, were
absolutely the *CHEAPEST* ones that Atari could buy.  My ST used to exhibit many
of these symptoms, and I got fed up with it and brought it in to a de-solder
station and removed all of the sockets and replaced them with new, (and more
expensive ;-() sockets, and have had very little problems with it since.  It's
a little radical, but it sure fixed it up proper.

						Myron Drapal
						att!med@druwy.ATT.COM