Post Mortem Re: 486 dies terrible death

From: Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com>
Date: Thu Jun 3 13:38:29 2004

On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 16:57, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> I did a post mortem on the box and found that two power transistors in the
> power supply were the culprits. They literally went out with a bang. My
> theory is that the sinewy dust ball I found stuck to their heatsinks
> probably caused an arc.

Nahh, it's a factory installed comfort blanket, it acts as insulation
against the noise of the fan which wakes up the transistors too often.
Remove it at your peril.
Received on Thu Jun 03 2004 - 13:38:29 BST