It's dead Jim (4000D)

[dawiper]

Dr_Righteous wrote:
PS: Benchtesting ANYTHING on antistatic bags is a BAD IDEA!! They're made of an electrically conductive material, which will cause short circuits across all of the pins along the botom of the board.

Really? I guess its a miracle I haven't blown up 10's of pc-motherboards + my a1200. If the bags was electrically conductive they wouldn't give much shielding for static electricity...

[AmiGR]

They are a shield *because* they are conductive, they contain metal. Any electricity stays on the surface of the bag, not flowing to the contents.

[Ronmor]

Thanks again dawiper. I reread that trouble shooting site that explains the colors on the boot screen and which CIA would  be at fault, my problem is the U7/U300 CIA. :-)

[dawiper]

dawiper wrote:

Dr_Righteous wrote:
PS: Benchtesting ANYTHING on antistatic bags is a BAD IDEA!! They're made of an electrically conductive material, which will cause short circuits across all of the pins along the botom of the board.

Really? I guess its a miracle I haven't blown up 10's of pc-motherboards + my a1200. If the bags was electrically conductive they wouldn't give much shielding for static electricity...

AmiGR wrote:
They are a shield *because* they are conductive, they contain metal. Any electricity stays on the surface of the bag, not flowing to the contents.

Once again I spoke without doing some research.:-D Yes most are "metalized", and some are not. With some bad luck this could probably make trouble. Sorry about my incorrect statement.
From now on I will not benchtest amigaparts on such bags. I will however continue testing pc parts on esd bags. :-D