[rescue] Weitek PowerUP CPU

Al Potter rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue Jun 26 12:06:35 CDT 2001


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dowdy at cs.colorado.edu said:
> 
>     Does anyone know how to install the Weitek PowerUP chip?  I have 
> been trying to pry the existing Sun processor out of an SS-2 for about
> 20 minutes now with no headway (other then bending one of my knives).
> Is there a tool I need to pry the existing chip out?

> Yes, there is a tool, you should be able to get one at an electronics
> supplier.

> However, if you use care and a large flat-blad screw-driver, you can
> get the old chip out.

Ummmm, this presumes the CPU is socketed, as opposed to soldered to the 
mainboard.  I have seen both in SS2s.....

And you really do need the tool.....





AL


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