On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Paul Koning wrote:
10 ohms means about 0.5 amps -- sounds like a
perfectly respectable
amount of current for a board with "lots of silicon" to draw.
So... are you sure there is a short, rather than just circuitry?
I agree. Put the ohmmeter on both ways, see if the "short" acts
like a diode. If so, likely normal load. Might be symmetrical
though.