Re: [MiNT] CTPCI - be careful

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

On 5/20/10 11:08 PM, Mark Duckworth wrote:
> 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
CTPCI still works (well it is recognized anyway).  I don't know what I 
lit on fire but clearly it wasn't important.  The trace that lit didn't 
even blow.  It just glowed and burned all of the pcb material along its 
path.

Thanks,
Mark