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From:Rauw van Oorsprong
Date:4 Aug 2000 at 14:44:30
Subject:Re: Power PC Repairs

At 04-Aug-00, Gareth Griffiths said something about
[amigactive] Re: Power PC Repairs, resulting in this reply.

>> Im no technician, all I know is, they removed one of those crystal
>> thingies (the one near the edge of the board) and fiddled around with the
>> multiplier.
>That wouldn't fix the problem of it not booting the machine up, would it?

Uhuhuh got a few lists mixed up I guess :) I thought you needed a re-fix :)

(if you know what these are :^)

>Even the crashes are strange. A normal crash (fatal one) flashes the Power
>LED about 4 times and then reboots. The crashes I get from the PPC are
>different - it flashes the Power LED once, and then it stays on it's dimmer
>state. Then it doesn't do anything for about 10 seconds, then it reboots and
>it all begins again.

Hmm that sounds like a flashrom problem. tried upgrading/degrading it?

>> I think Phase5 would still fix it for free to be honest, but I dont know
>> anything about DCE.
>I doubt Phase5 would still fix it at all - they've closed down :-) I expect
>you knew that though, and you just wrote in the wrong context :-)

Exactly :)



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