Date   : Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:45:45 +0100 (BST)
From   : chris@... (Chris Johns)
Subject: No longer Mouldy Beebs

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Dominic Beesley wrote:

> I?ve so far managed to assemble one good machine from the four, however
> after about an hour of games last night it packed in with what I presume
> is overheating ? the video processor was hot and its back to normal this
> morning, though it quickly got hot again. The symptoms were random
> characters being sent to keyboard buffer and memory corruption worsening
> to reboots going to a mode 7 screen full of character &FFs. Is this a
> common problem?

One sort of video processor (the older type) needed a heatsink. I think it 
was the Feranti ULA version - if you have one of these does it have the 
heatsink and if it does it is stuck on with some thermal sticky stuff?
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  Chris Johns <chris@...             >