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From: cgw%trillian.irb@unido.uucp (Natuerlich!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: problems
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Date: 6 Mar 89 11:23:52 GMT
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In article <890301143043BB5.AQIM@Mars.UCC.UMass.EDU> Leopold@UMass.BITNET writes:
> [most stuff deleted]
>
>P.S.  It isn't loose chips; I've opened up the machine and pushed in every
>socketed chip.  Twice.

Yes, that does sound painfully similiar to the trouble I had. 
In the end (a couple of weeks later), the mouse cursor just went 
uncontrollable in all directions. My ST is unusable now.

The repair guy [who usually isn't too bad in fixing things] couldn't find
the problem either, but he is sure that neither one of the 'big chips (*)' is
causing the problem. Well I bought a new computer and try to fix the old ST
myself. I think of replacing the LS244 from the keyboard and the 
'Kondensatoren' (I have no idea, what that is in English). I don't have
much hope though.

Just in case someone did fix a similiar problem:
			"How did you do it ?"


(*) MFP, 6850, Keyboardchip.
    ^^^
    He sez, that this is in the majority of cases the problem!
 Georg Wallmann (Natuerlich!)    cgw@trillian.irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de 
 "Lasst dicke Frauen um mich sein"         ...uunet!mcvax!unido!trillian!cgw 
 (moving in March/zieht im Maerz um)
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