Parts needed

[Goddard, Duncan]

>>>Always socket repair chips, if it went bad once, it may go bad again
(failure mode).<<<

the best advice always seems obvious. take a look inside any broadcast
hardware... my alarm bells always ring when I see stuff that the
manufacturer has put in sockets, and I curse them when they haven't. we
routinely chuck boards because a big chip has expired; these cards can cost
upwards of 2k and be 14 layers and there's nothing else you can do with
them. at least when the racehorse transistor goes in a smpsu, you know the
rest of it won't be far behind and it's not so heartbreaking to bin it.
my poly6 is probably never going to get it's memory back because I had to do
so much surgery on it to get the cpu going again that the board can't take
any more work.

d.







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