24 Jan
2006
24 Jan
'06
4:03 p.m.
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:02:42 +0000 (GMT)
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
Or, to be historically correct: when there's a repair depot to
ship the old part to, in a company where 'field repair' is
discouraged because the same 'problem' in the assembly will be
troubleshot time after time by every technician in the field, and
a permanent 'fix' will never make it into the new design because
the people in the development lab next door to the repair depot
who watch rework/repair trends never find out about the problem.
At 01:15 AM 1/24/2006, Gooijen, Henk wrote:
I know, I know! And I was a bit disappointed that he didn't grind
down the top of the failed chip to do a proper repair. :-)
What failed chip? All the RAMs were good...
Tony
Duell wrote:
And the board basically worked. The display at boot-up was sane.
Suspecting a RAM problem, I put in a complete new set of
4164s -- no change.
Hmmm, sounds like swapping to me ... ;-)
Of course, he can regain the extra point by giving an explanation
of why swapping a chip is allowed under the proper interpretation
of the official repair rules.
Err, when you know the replacement part is good, when you know the
replacement part is directly equivalent to the old part, and when the old
part cannot be repaired?
-tony