| From: | Ross Whiteford |
| Date: | 8 Aug 2000 at 23:13:36 |
| Subject: | Re: Power PC repairs |
Hi,
>Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 09:56:30 +0000
> From: Kevin Twyman <kappo@theboyz.freeserve.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: Power PC Repairs
>Hello Neil,
>On 05-Aug-00, you wrote:
>>> I had almost exactly that same fault with my CSPPC. It turned out
>>> to be a bad connection between the card and the motherboard
>> It seems to be a particular problem if the A4000 is towered. The
>> card in then hanging from the slot rather than sitting on top of it,
>My A4000 is indeed towered (Power Tower). I noticed when I first
>fitted the CSPPC that it didn't seem a particularly tight fit in the
>processor slot, at least, nowhere near as tight as Zorro cards tend to
>be in their slots.
This might be of help to anyone with loose PPC/Accelerator cards: When I
towered my A1200 (EZ-TWR Mk5) the Accelerator was hanging (quite literally)
from the Expansion slot. The instruction manual advises you to wedge it in
place with about a dozen (approx.) folded pieces of A4 paper. I did so, and
have had no problems with the accelerator since (it works far better than
the Desktop A1200.
If you have the same problem, maybe you should give it a go. It *SEEMS* safe
and the paper in mine hasn't so much as scorched despite lengthy usage, but
don't blame me if it doesn't work! ;)
PS. I was unable to find the instructions on how to supply extra power to a
PPC card, sorry.
All the best!
Ross Whiteford
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