"Peter C. Wallace" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> > If I remove the video module and the memory, should it go some distance
> > into POST before complaining (with some LEDs off)?
> 
> Yes it should write something out to the LED port really early in the ROM
> code... Are the Boot EPROMS socketed? If they are, you might try gently prying
> them slightly out of their sockets and then pushing them down again...

I already removed/reinserted everything, including all large and small
ROMs.
Even cleaned all used contacts with surgical spirit.

> The 5000/200 has a lot of (fairly power hungry=hot) PALS. If you are unlucky,
> maybe one of them has died...

Many of the small ICs are running very hot, always have been. I consider
a heat relate failure plausible.

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