Re: Heisenbugs in my Tempest

From: Christopher X. Candreva <chris_at_westnet.com>
Date: Mon Aug 15 2011 - 14:13:58 EDT

On Sun, 14 Aug 2011, Alan McCormick wrote:

> If you do eventually try the pin cleaning, find a Craftsman brand screwdriver with a square
> shaft. Hold the chip against the flat shaft so the pins don't bend back and use a GENTLE wiping
> motion (up and down) on the pins. I rarely lose any pins unless they had physical damage (ie pin
> rot or folds).
>
> Personally I'd clean them and if the problem never returns then you're golden. Given that its
> working NOW, a pin cleaning rule out the chips and only leave the possibility of a flaky socket.
> IME intermittent problems rarely *permanently* disappear without any work. Entropy simply does
> not work that way...

Good advice all around, thanks all. I may try a combination aproach, make
sure I work on it (read: play it :-) every night this week, see if I can get
it to fail again.

> +1 for the Heisenbug reference :)
:-)

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