Subject: Re: Multia diagnose ( was RE: multia diagnostic light )
To: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 07/10/2000 20:22:50
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 01:28:09PM -0400, David Woyciesjes wrote:
> Sounds like a memory problem from what info I dug up... Try re-seating the
> SIMMs, or if you have four in there, try all combinations of two at a time
> to see if you can find the bad one...
> 
> Or is it the same Multia as from one of these previous messages?
> 
> **********
> 
> On the subject of physical problems with multias, how about those little
> (about 5 by 3mm) black things on the underside of the board? While sliding
> the board out of the case, I seem to have knocked one of them off the board
> with that round thing that the board uses to attach to the case. There are
> only two contacts on it's bottom. What is this part and how hard is it to
> fix this one?

Electrolytic tantalum capacitor from the sound of it. Probably power
decoupling.

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