Dead AIM 65??

Ethan Dicks ethan.dicks at gmail.com
Fri Apr 15 15:48:36 CDT 2005


On 4/15/05, Dwight K. Elvey <dwight.elvey at amd.com> wrote:
> 
> Anyway, back to the original subject.
>  There is no magic bullet to bring these older machines
> back to life. Some of the things that can help
> are, not in any particular order:
> 
> 5. Soldering iron w/ solder
> 11. solder sucker and/or solder wick

To go with these - machined-pin sockets, not cheap sockets.  I've had
problems with, specifically, the 40 and 24 pin sockets in PET
motherboards failing.  Remove socket, replace with machined-pin,
replace original chip in socket, voila... working PET.

-ethan



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