26 Jan
2006
26 Jan
'06
4:46 a.m.
Except it often isn't, for me, as in my example of
the cg6. I don't
have the equipment - nor skill to substitute for the lack of it - to
replace, say, the Bt458 on a cg6. Nor do I have spare Bt458s, except
I assume this isa RAMDAC. Ins't it just a normal PGA package, not that
hard to replace?
on other cg6s. But I do have plenty of inract cg6s.
This brings up another point. If you do component-level repair, then a
single replacement board might act as donor to repair more than one
machine (if the faults are different in the 2 defective machines). Or of
course you might be able to get the right part from a totally differnt
machine (at least one of my S100 RAM boards was fixed with a delay line
raided from a no-name PC/AT motherboard..)
-tony