Crazy over heating cables. [Fixed...]

[KennyR]

Do you have a CPPC by any chance? This is a common problem of that model of CPU card.

[KennyR]

Hmm, if your connectors were crap then you'd get less current and so less heat. Something in your system is drawing too much power. They tend to do that when they get too old.

I suppose you could always polish the connector pins a bit (carefully!) and get new power feed cables. If you cpu card has a fan you might be able to take some of the load off the motherboard by powering the fan straight from the PSU (if it's not already).

I have this problem with my Amiga too, and I never really managed to fix it. Without the two extra powerfeeds (one in the fan, one in the floppy power feed), my Amiga probably wouldn't work at all. :-(

[KennyR]

Oldsmobile_Mike wrote:
Do they give a reason for this? (Although it does sound like a lose connection problem to me)

I guess it's because the Amiga was never meant to power CPUs as powerful as the PPC, and the CPPC has one and a 68k. The problem is worst on 040+233. Some people don't have it at all though, maybe it only happens with earlier produced boards. And sometimes they don't have it at first but it comes on as the board gets older. It's worse on BPPC. Mine started misbehaving some 2 years after I got it - loss of picture, crashes, melted cables, etc.