Re: [MiNT] CTPCI - be careful

[Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.org>]

On 5/20/10 10:48 PM, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> On Thursday 20 May 2010 08:46 pm, Mark Duckworth wrote:
>    
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > Tonight I fried at very least my falcon, CT60, and CTPCI.   I'm probably
> > not going to do much over the summer.  I'm pretty disgusted with myself
> > and the situation.  It actually caught on fire :(  What happened was I
> > must not have bent the falcon mainboard connectors over far enough and
> > one of them pierced the ribbon cable that goes from pci board to ctpci.
> > The whole thing lit up like fireworks :(  I'm very very upset over this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> >      
> Geez Mark - I'm sorry to hear that man... :(
>
>    
Unbelievably, I took my board out of the case, methodically looked it 
over, fixed a break in the clock patch and the falcon and ct60 still 
work!  This thing was on FIRE.  Assuming all parts of both things work, 
then my losses are max ctpci and radeon card.  I guess we'll see..

Thanks,
Mark