Re: [MiNT] CTPCI - be careful

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

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