breathing life into old chips

From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz_at_unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
Date: Fri Apr 4 11:59:01 2003

On 2003.04.04 11:04 Jules Richardson wrote:

> the microcontroller in the set seems to have developed a fault
> which only appears when the set's warm.
Are you sure it is the microcontroller? Problems of this kind are "cold"
solder points much more often then failed components. => Resolder
everything on the PCB, especially where the PCB gets hot.

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tsch??,
       Jochen
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Received on Fri Apr 04 2003 - 11:59:01 BST