I actually own a 600 too, never played with it much
though. One thing I can say, smoke or another
indication of what the problem may be is one of the
best problems that could happen with your puter.
Probably a capacitor. No way of knowing until you open
it though...
I was playing chess on my original Tandy 2000 way
back, when it locked up, and saw a "memory parity
error" on the screen. Well...I've learned that that
doesn't necessarily indicate a bad parity chip, but
sure enough it was. Learned to desolder the man's way
(with a wick), soldered in a socket, and popped in a
new 4164. Back in business.
--- aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Sadly things have taken a turn to the graveyard...
I hadn't been able to find the time to see what the
original problem was caused by. A few weeks ago I no
ticed that the floppies started coming out of the in
ternal floppy drive warm on the underside.
Today when I switched her on I heard a click sound (
no, not the switch button, another click) and when I
started to see a slight whisp of smoke coming out f
rom the floppy drive I knew something was seriously
wrong and switched her off.
I daren't switch her back on and will have to remove
the harddrive and open up my 2nd A600, even if it m
eans breaking those damn clips at the back.
This comes after a few weeks of long working days (8
to 8.5 hours) when I should only be doing 7 hours a
day. I am not a happy man at present.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
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