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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Greg Mayman wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:10:50 +0000 (UTC), sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > Now we have a computer which has no video, after being dropped.  Cracked
> > solder joints?
>
> More likely it is broken tracks on the board. The board flexes
> and the tracks just crack across.
>
> The breaks are usually invisible except under the most powerful
> magnification.

The problem was bad RAM.  We had assumed the friends who returned it left 
in good RAM.

This is a Tyan Thunder100 which is supposedly perfect for use with linux - 
eepro100 ethernet and sb16 sound onboard, and dual 450MHz cpus that are 
said to work with SMP starting with kernel 2.0.  Can't get it to work with 
anything scsi except one drive.  The BIOS of the onboard scsi controller 
has trouble with the others, and low-level formats the 2GB drives for 
"31MB" which linux recognized as 710GB (after we disabled parity checking) 
and fdisk won't access (FATAL ERROR).  They worked with an Adaptec 
controller card until it failed (without the drives attached at the time). 
So did some external drives and an external CD_ROM drive.  Odd.  A 
Commodore Amiga expert will try to help.

Sindi
Thanks for your info anyway.

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