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Re: (ASCEND) P50 NVRAM purge
On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 10:05:46AM -0500, Chuck Crews wrote:
> Thanks to the many folks who emailed tips for getting this accomplished.
> Unfortunately, the motherboard is so old that it defies the methods most
> P50 users might emply to reset it. And Ascend wants roughly $200 to
> reset it, as it's way out of warranty. Given that a new P50 is only $500
> on the street, $200 to reset the NVRAM is a little too high to be
> worthwhile.
>
> If anyone has any last-ditch ideas, please snd 'em along!
Go to your favorite friend in the high energy dept. of the university
near you and give it a good dose of X-Ray or better ? Hmm, may get
rid of other things too, like the mask prommed stuff in the CPU...
Maybe go to your favorite neurologist and give it a MRT. I've seen P50
drop their NVRAM config under high electromagnetic field influence (bureau
directly alongside railroad, when they started an electric locomotive
in the nearby train station they had some 3 to 5 milliTesla in the
bureau, CRTs wobbering wildly - and P50s losing config every now and
then). An MRT has 1000 times the power. However, starting an MRT may
be worth more than $200...
AFAIK those chips are also made light shielded in a good way. Some
chip material still passes enough light to send a RAM/CPU etc. to
nowhere using a good flashlight. But I would not expect you could harm
those DALLAS packs this way...
Hmm, getting OffTopic...
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