Location of CIA Chips on a1200 board?

[carvedeye]

Hi could some one tell where the CIA chips are located on the a1200 board? they are generating heat and i need to apply some heatsinks to them to disapate the heat.

TIA

[carvedeye]

You don't know where they are, but you've determined that they are generating heat?

The CIA chips don't get hot unless there is something very wrong with them. They don't need heat sinks.

as i understand CIA chips controll the floppy drive serial etc...my system is playing up floppy disks are not being read and my mouse and gamepad are not responding correctly but when i spray a can of compressed air into the top left corner of the motherboard (a1200 towered) things work for a short time until the cia chips heat up again.

[carvedeye]

any1?

[carvedeye]

I think your a wee bit confused here, the CIA chips in an A1200 are not at the top left of the MB, they are located at the top right and top middle

Is that near the floppy drive connection? if that is where you mean then yes that is where im spraying, when i say top left im saying this becuase my a1200 is in a tower so where as if it where in the desktop case then yes that would be top righ but when it is laid on its side in a tower it becomes the left as it is located in the left corner of the case if you get my meaning.

[carvedeye]

I've just taken a quick pic of where you can locate the A1200s CIA Chips



I've never had any problems myself with the CIA chips but I'll see what I can find out for you as it may be something else that's causing your problems...

Franko thank you very much that is exactly what i wanted.