[bedevtalk] Slow death of a BeBox...

[Zaranthos]

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    Sometimes a good cleaning on old systems can solve problems like 
that. Blow out all the dust with a can or two of compressed air. Clean 
all the removable/socketed chips with some good electrical contact 
cleaner (I use TV tuner cleaner from Radio Shack and some cotton swabs - 
spray the cleaner on the swabs not the chips). The chips pop back in a 
lot easier than they come out once cleaned (keep track of the notch mark 
on the chip so you don't put them in backwards). Just be careful when 
taking them out not to bend the pins (take them out evenly). I have a 
couple chip pullers but they usually don't work very well so I use a 
small screwdriver and work the chips out from side to side a little at a 
time. Sometimes just cleaning the RAM contacts is enough to fix lockups 
but I've had to clean all the socketed chips before on systems that were 
older. I once cleaned a board from a computer that was through a fire by 
washing it with alcohol and blasting it with compressed air to remove 
the soot. You can check for heat damaged chips by spraying chips with 
chip cooler also but that can be tricky if it runs fine for awile.

Pete Goodeve wrote:

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>Hi All,
>       This is a long shot, but I thought I'd ask.  (Is anyone but me still
>*using* a BeBox? (:-/)
>
>My box is freezing, anywhere from an hour or so after boot-up, to a few
>minutes or even shorter.  It's not clear if it's a temperature problem yet.
>I've tried turning off each processor in turn with no effect, so I guess
>it's not in there.  And I've switched out each memory bank -- again nothing.
>
>So I'm just wondering if this has happened to anybody else, as I don't have
>much idea where to look now.  If I can't fix it I'm sort of stuck in keeping
>PPC versions of my apps available.  (It died tonight just as I was about to
>make a new archive...)
>
>					-- Pete --
>
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