Sometimes I get the feeling that something needs warming up on my
Amiga. It usually takes 5 minutes before my display stops flickering
and juddering - I was wondering if a capacitor in my Scandoubler needs
replacing.
If I leave it for a whole day the juddering will take that much longer
to `warm up' and sort itself out.
Can someone give instructions on how to test capacitors (aside from
the usual check for leakage and bulging) and maybe a test we can
carry out on all the components of the motherboard.
Another thing that worries me greatly is the amount of oxidisation on
my Phase5 Blizzard 1260. The Gold contacts are literally matt-yellow!
I scraped the SCSI expansion connector to make it gold but this
surely wouldn't give as clean a contact as something to clean off the
oxidised material.
Would a cotton bud (Q-Tip?) dipped in brass polish do the trick? I've
heard of using isopropyl alcohol but is this any use as a contact
cleaner, does it actually de-oxidise in a way metal polish does?
I think it'd be good for an expert to help start a testing and
reliability thread!
:-D :-D :-D
