randy@uw-june (William Randy Day) (08/20/85)
The other day my PC died with a bad system board error message. After
some hex arithmatic, I determined the bad chip, pulled it, and
pushed in a new 64k chip. That didn't fix the problem, so I pulled
a few more chips in the general area and threw in new ones (hey, they're
cheap). The problem was still not fixed, and I noticed the new chips
were getting amazingly hot. Then I realized -- I was putting
64k chips in an old PC-1 system board that uses 16k chips! I wondered
if I had blown-up my system board, but new 16k chips were all that
was needed to fix the problem. It seems the system board can take
a little bit of abuse.
Randy Day.
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