[rescue] E420r problems

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Thursday 16 February 2006 09:29, Dan Sikorski wrote:
> >   We had a Sun FE (!) trash the riser card, mobo, DIMMs, and other
> >interior components of a 420R by over-torquing the screws and it too
> >behaved badly and unstably until they just gave us all new innards.
> >*sniff* Poor thing...
>
> Well, it's entirely possible that i have that here.  I got this used,
> and the screws on top of the memory riser have some damage like someone
> might have overtightened.  Might be time for new innards here...

If that's the problem, you should be able to see some bent pins in the MICR 
riser card connector.  Don't bother trying to fix them... I did for a while, 
then gave up and bought new boards and risers.

Of course, I realized that the boards I bought from the guy came with risers 
*after* I bought a pair of risers in a different auction.

If anyone needs a 420R riser or two, let me know...

Pat
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