Has a 128 Mb EDO module fried my PPC ???

[Effy]

Checked the post today and found a package with 2 HP EDO modules of 128 Mb doublesided each (#A3830-6001) meant for several HP 9000 modules. I have put one in my Blittard PPC 160/040 in the memory slot with the angle a bit up. Turned computer on and nothing, zip, nada. What I did get was that I noticed the smell of smoke  :oops: Removed 128 Mb module but computer still refused to boot. Removed Blizzard and turned it on without turboboard, but still nothing. Have tried the Blizzard in another A1200 with the 32 Mb module that was in it before but even the light of the A1200 will not turn on. The smell of smoke was both on the turboboard and on the memory module. So I tried my Microbotics 1230 XA with the 2nd 128 Mb module ... even the green light didn´t turn on. Tried a 16 Mb module and the computer booted. Tried the 128 Mb again and it didn´t boot, drive didn´t click, nothing. There was no harddrive connected so this can not have been a cause ...
Now what  :-?

[Effy]

The smell of smoke is located at one end of the Simm socket, also on the HP module itself.  :oops:
But my A1200 now won´t boot anymore, not even without a turboboard, and also not with my spare Blizzard 1230  :pissed:
Funny that the Microbotics does not give the smell of smoke when the other 128 Mb module is placed on it. And it does work again when I put a normal 16 Mb module on it  :-o

[Effy]

I am also expecting a sending of SAMSUNG 128MB 32X36-60ns ECC SIMM Memory chips with pn: KMM53632000AK-6U ... how can I know if they will work or not  :-?

[Effy]

When I discribed the problem and how it occured to one of our belgian club members (with a major technological background) he immediately assumed something got too much Volts and burned, even my Amiga itself. I am gonna try to have him fix it but I guess I´ve got tot keep my fingers crossed ...

[Effy]

That is exactly the information I got today when I brought him the PPC card and the Amiga too ... now I can only wait and see ...

[Effy]

Hyperspeed : ehm, I´m afraid I have asked such a question in one of my topics before  :oops: Fact is that my RBM tower power supply still works but that the A1200 itself doesn´t, not even without turboboard. I have also been told that there seem to be buffers on the Blizzard PPC and that they are probably burned too ... our clubmember Flurk is going to try to fix it. I noticed that he read the card the same way I read a posting in Dutch, like an open book. I didn´t understand a word of his explanation but he did seem to know what he was talking about and also had the schematics of the A1200 motherboard ...  :-o

[Effy]

Do you mean the original metal shield ?? Haven´t seen one of those for ages !! What I meant was a Blizz PPC card in a RBM Towerhawk tower, not touching anything and the 128 Mb module certainly not touching the PPC board  :-)

[Effy]

Thanks for all the support and advice guys !! Got a mail yesterday evening from our ´technical minded´ clubmember informing me that both my A1200 and Blizzard PPC work again  :-o Cool !! THE perfect Xmas gift  :lol:

Now I only need to discuss the price  :-D

[Effy]

Thanks, but I owe it all to the technical skills of our clubmember Flurk. When it first happened I was prepared to throw it in the trashcan  :lol:

[Effy]

Okay Framiga, shall ask him. I just want to say that he hasn´t got any experience at Amiga, just a major obession with repairing PS1´s and a lot of other tech stuff. That said I also must add that he already repaired two of my A4000´s with Fast Mem problems, from which one was called by a leaking battery ... so in my eyes I put him at the top of my personal ranking  :-)
Another touchy question, how much do you want to spend at the repair

edit : just mailed him and shall let you know what he will reply

[Effy]

About 128 Mb server modules that use a different voltage. What does the Amiga use 5 V Are those server modules then 3,3 V Can´t you place a cheap voltage stableliser on those modules to make them work in a 5 V system