Re: Cleaning pins works for Battlezone too.

And the second would be to reflow the header pins on the interconnect cable, even when you're sure they look just fine. I finally did it on my Tempest and lo, now it works.

-Douglas

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On Sep 19, 2011, at 8:44 AM, "Travis Shire" <boardjunkie@techie.com> wrote:

> That is the first thing you do when confronted with a non functional or partially functioning board.
>
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Christopher X. Candreva
>> Sent: 09/16/11 09:53 PM
>> To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
>> Subject: VECTOR: Cleaning pins works for Battlezone too.
>>
>>
>> Whoda thunk it ?
>> :-)
>>
>> After years of trying to find what pins needed to be soldered on my BZ
>> mathbox, I decided to try the pin cleaning trick. That one Signetics chip
>> was the culprit, with completely black pins.
>>
>> Cleaned them up with an eraser and she's running fine. Thanks for the tip.
>>
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