Comment Re:Biggest cause of failure in old PC: Bad contact (Score 1) 512
From the times of the Atari ST I still have the '10 cm test' in my repertoire.
The Atari had lots of socketed chips inside, and whenever the PC acted a bit weird, I used to lift the thing 10 cm and just let it drop. That was ususally enough to settle the chips a bit better in their sockets and have it work some better afterwards.
The Atari had lots of socketed chips inside, and whenever the PC acted a bit weird, I used to lift the thing 10 cm and just let it drop. That was ususally enough to settle the chips a bit better in their sockets and have it work some better afterwards.
