>Oh, I see. Any ideas where the smoke is coming from? As is well known,
>computers and ICs run on smoke, so when the smoke comes out they stop
>working...
>
Basically, it's coming from everywhere. I think it's mostly the enamel
burning off the traces, and from the melting Z80.
>> I have a scope that someone was going to trash that appears to work, but
I
>> don't have any cables but a couple of old multitester cables.
>> I doubt there would be any _useful_ activity on the Z80 pins. The chip
is
>> basically melted. Most of the chips are like that. There's paper clips
>> permanantly fused to other parts of the board.
>
>Ouch!!! I'm not going to try to reproduce this, but I wonder what
>actually happened. Yes, OK, paper clips shorted all sorts of things
>out, but what did all the damage?
>
Huh? The solder melted in a lot of the places, and the paper clips stuck to
it. There's a lot of fried traces, too. Instead of trying to fix it, I'd
be MUCH better off just finding another board.
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Received on Mon Dec 28 1998 - 23:37:46 GMT