home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!blade.stack.urc.tue.nl!hennes
- From: hennes@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Hennes Passmann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Popping Processors...
- Message-ID: <7131@tuegate.tue.nl>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 16:10:46 GMT
- References: <1993Jan23.170427.29107@ra.msstate.edu>
- Sender: root@tuegate.tue.nl
- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
- Lines: 22
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
-
- Daniel Jr Murrell (djm2@Ra.MsState.Edu) wrote:
- : Rich,
- : Has anyone had this problem? Oh yeah! :)
- : I have a Derringer board, and for a while there, i left all the screws
- : out of my 500 case so that i could easily plug the board back in when
- : it gets popped out of the socket. Eventually, it seems like the board
- : may settle down into the socket, but for now, I'm typing lightly, and
- : i have a big glob of the yellow rubbery tack-it putty crushed between
- : the case and the problem end of the board. Hopefully, that'll keep
- : the board safely in place. I guess the material is safe, since it's all
- : up against my 68000 chip, and it doesn't seem to have fused yet.. :)
- : I'm still trying to decide on the "superglue" fix.. Anyone else have any
- : other ideas? What does CSA suggest?
- :
- I had the same problem with a derringer,while not perfectly seated the der.
- would not boot in the 68000 mode. I fixed it using extreme pressure
- (just try to break your motherboard in pieces,triple the force and it should
- work). The derringer worked fine ever since.
-
- -hennes
- hennes@stack.urc.tue.nl
- : Dan
-