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Re: [MiNT] CTPCI - be careful

On 5/29/10 7:43 AM, Paul Wratt wrote:

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Mark Duckworth
<mduckworth@atari-source.org>  wrote:

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


Howd it go Mark, have you got it up and running yet? what about the CTPCI

Paul
Well falcon and ct60 are very fine. All subsystems on both check out. The CTPCI however doesn't work and actually causes chips on PCI cards to get hot. I am using a different CTPCI now. (Rodolphe for whatever reason sent me 2 so I'll just use the other and pay him for it I guess). All in all a minor loss when you consider the drama of the situation. I just hope everyone else takes a step back and thinks before they switch things on unlike me. 

Thanks,
Mark