Was the second episode also in Antarctica? Wouldn't there be a reason
why the first chip fried? I mean chips don't just evaporate their
casings!
>> > I add to this tricky problems:
>>
>> - Bent pin on VGA monitor plug
>>
>
>At one job, I want back to the stock room to find three monitors
>that were tagged "BAD (RED|GREEN) GUN". One was repairable by
>straightening out the bent pin. The other two were too crimped
>and broke off. Fortunately, we had a pile of (genuinely) dead
>ones that could be stripped for the cables. This was in Antarctica.
>Couldn't exactly send out for spares (until sunrise).
>
>At that same place, the other techs ooh'ed and aah'ed when I
>replaced a surface mount chip that drove the parallel port
>on a Dell 316sx. (When I went to that service call, after half-
>an-hour of debugging the machine (which still booted and ran),
>the customer commented, "maybe it won't print because of all the
>smoke that was coming out of it." I thought he was joking at
>first. I mean, wouldn't you mention _that_ in the first five
>minutes of describing the problem? Upon closer examination,
>I could see the hole in the package. New chip, no problem.)
>
>-ethan
>
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Received on Tue Jun 09 1998 - 18:15:31 BST