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To: 'Riccardo Veraldi' <Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it>
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Subject: RE: Interested in your opinion "machine check" 
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Dear Riccardo,

> 
> Yes it's a good idea... I could try to feed the disk with an 
> extern power
> supply. Anyway I not only have a HD, there is also the CDrom 
> which sucks on the power supply of my AS 255.
>
Well, you could simply unplug the cdrom and other unused stuff from the
machine and see if that helps.

I double an idle cdrom drive is going to draw a noticeable amount of power,
though.

Have you tried removing and replacing the RAM, as Wilko suggested earlier?
If the contacts are very dirty you can carefully clean them with a glass
fibre brush. Watch for static electricity, though. :-)

You may want to do the same with the cache chips, if they're DIP format.

    Kees Jan

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