Vintage Synth Repair

On Monday 28 April 2008 05:58, Philip wrote:
> Surely the machine should still boot up as those chips
> are nothing to do with the CPU circuit.. Warmth of
> IC's give no clue to failure.

Well,  most CMOS should not feel at all warm to the touch.

> Some ram chips get almost too hot to touch yet they are fine.

Which ones are those?


-- 
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space,  a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed.  --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
-
Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James 
M Dakin