Re: Asteriods losing voltage

Bending stuff over the edge connector is a certain way of ruining the card
edge connector pins, they can't recover from the larger pin size. It is
much better to extend the edge connector with new card material, and
replace the card edge connector plug.

John :-#)#

At 10:02 AM 12/11/01, you wrote:
>On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, John Robertson wrote:
>
> > Dean, your edge connector on either the board, the card edge
> connector, or
> > BOTH is/are toasted. The Vcc or Vdd (common) contacts are burnt and not
> > passing enough current to bring the 5VDC on the MPU up to snuff. I suspect
> > the edge connector is getting hot to the touch....
> > ...
>...
>Replace the edge connector and repair the board edge as best as
>possible. Edge or molex connector pins can be bent and soldered over
>burnt edge pins without too much trouble if you don't want to go to the
>trouble of completely grafting on a whole new extension card.
>
>--
>Mark Jenison

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Received on Wed Dec 12 08:30:30 2001