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Article #4445Re: Maintenance of sockets, cards, etc.. (was Re: Packard Bell
From: j... Jonathan A. Chandross
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 1990 18:46
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 1990 18:46
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j...@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) > Just last week, a friend of mine had a PC's Limited XT go out of > whack. We called Dell (the current owner/name of PC's Limited) > customer support (on a 5 year old machine :-) and one of the > first things the support tech said to do was clean all of the > card edges with an eraser. (He didn't say to clean the eraser > first, but we did that anyway. :-) Don't EVER do this. You'll remove all the gold plating from the card edge. Instead, use alcohol; it does the job and won't remove the gold plating. Once you remove the plating you'll have grief on a regular basis as the edge, now just plain copper, oxidizes away. Jonathan A. Chandross Internet: j...@paul.rutgers.edu UUCP: rutgers!paul.rutgers.edu!jac
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!decwrl!shelby!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!paul.rutgers.edu!jac From: j...@paul.rutgers.edu (Jonathan A. Chandross) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Maintenance of sockets, cards, etc.. (was Re: Packard Bell Message-ID: <Sep.11.14.46.59.1990.12670@paul.rutgers.edu> Date: 11 Sep 90 18:46:59 GMT References: <1990Sep6.154721.12322@iwarp.intel.com> <1410001@hp-vcd.HP.COM> <1990Sep11.023817.18825@lavaca.uh.edu> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 18 Posted: Tue Sep 11 19:46:59 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit