Getting bent (ON topic if not thread)

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Fri Mar 13 13:28:08 1998

On Mar 13, 12:52, David Wollmann wrote:
> Now we just have to worry about busting the cheap plastic
> retainers on some of the older sockets. I hate it when I have to trash a
> mobo for a busted SIMM socket.

They're not usually very hard to replace. I've fixed at least two motherboards
such as you describe by using the SIMM sockets swiped from one that really was
DBR. Even new SIMM sockets aren't expensive.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York

Received on Fri Mar 13 1998 - 13:28:08 GMT