If I find the guy who designed the Star Wars EMI board . . .

I'm going to shoot him. Right with the guy who wrote the schematics.
Beautiful piece of fiction they are.

First: The schematics show + and - 5 being sourced by the side of the board
that can only produce +5. Check. Double check. OK -- that should just be two
+5 pins, since they both connect to the same trace. No big deal.

Diagnosis was dead on: Pin B +5 power is worn, a bit scorched, and not
making contact. But pin 2 -- right under it -- should also have +5, and
that's making contact just fine. No scorching there . .

Of course not. On the EMI board, pin 2 doesn't connect to anything, while
pin B supplies +5 to both pins 2 and B on the main PCB.

If that's not bad enough, the +5 they do pick up is the one that is shared
with the AVG board.

Aside from cleaning the contacts, is there any good reason NOT to also pick
up power from the second +5 source ? It would seem the scorching is an
indication a second +5 source is needed.

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Chris Candreva -- chris@westnet.com -- (914) 967-7816
WestNet Internet Services of Westchester
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