16 Nov
2008
16 Nov
'08
2:15 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Nov 15, 2008, at 7:02 PM, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I got bit by a bad jumper too....
I added jumper 'blocks' (salvaged from a dead HD) to a Cobalt
RAQ 3i. Turns out one of the jumpers I put on the voltage selection
pins was bad... and I overvolted the CPU and fried it... thankfully
I hadn't put in the K6-2+ at that point yet !
-- Curt
OTOH, I can still recall one machine (that I
sold!) back when that
acted up,
and after a bit of troubleshooting I found _a bad jumper_ in there...
Ugh! I've had that happen a couple of times.
Another "fun" one, which was easier to spot, was a jumper that had
no little metal clip inside. It felt secure (which was odd since it's
usually the little metal clip that gives it some friction on the pins)
but upon turning it over, nothing.
-Dave