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On 5/20/10 11:08 PM, Mark Duckworth wrote:
> On 5/20/10 10:48 PM, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
>> On Thursday 20 May 2010 08:46 pm, Mark Duckworth wrote:
>>> Hey guys,
>>>
>>> Tonight I fried at very least my falcon, CT60, and CTPCI.   I'm 
>>> probably
>>> not going to do much over the summer.  I'm pretty disgusted with myself
>>> and the situation.  It actually caught on fire :(  What happened was I
>>> must not have bent the falcon mainboard connectors over far enough and
>>> one of them pierced the ribbon cable that goes from pci board to ctpci.
>>> The whole thing lit up like fireworks :(  I'm very very upset over 
>>> this.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mark
>> Geez Mark - I'm sorry to hear that man... :(
>>
> Unbelievably, I took my board out of the case, methodically looked it 
> over, fixed a break in the clock patch and the falcon and ct60 still 
> work!  This thing was on FIRE.  Assuming all parts of both things 
> work, then my losses are max ctpci and radeon card.  I guess we'll see..
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
>
>
CTPCI still works (well it is recognized anyway).  I don't know what I 
lit on fire but clearly it wasn't important.  The trace that lit didn't 
even blow.  It just glowed and burned all of the pcb material along its 
path.

Thanks,
Mark