HAPPY HAPPY !!, JOY JOY!! 4000 040/50 lives AGAIN!

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I, lastnight, having nothing to do, decided after 2 years, to dig my 4000 out try again to revive her. A half a can of contact cleaner and a spot sanding pecil later, the most beautiful boot screen I have ever seen came up asking for a floppy. I was sure she was dead. I just had to tell someone who might give a rats ars since my wife just smiles and says "that's nice, baby."

Have a WONDERFUL DAY DAMMIT!!, I AM!   :-D

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TjLaZer wrote:
What all did you do to get it up and running?  Would be useful info for us if we shall need to do the same later.  

I blasted the processor slots (3640&motherboard) w/ contact cleaner, took a spot sanding pencil to the contacts on both, and blew them out. (greased the paddles, put one on top and one on the side and yelled...CLEAR!)
 :-)

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Brian wrote:

Ow and that is probably not an 040/50 but a 040/25... you know the 040 only use half the speed of the crystal.

Ah!, but it is. :-)  A Sonnet doubler w/ chill circuit and fan. I have to have a piece of cardboard between the doubler and the board just to keep the contacts on the bottom of the processor socket from touching the surface mounted caps on the 3640. It sits kinda {bleep}-eyed, but it works. Doubler was worth a chunk of change back in the day, but it's the next best thing to an 060/ppc.

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I ment more like $$ wise. :-)