Post by thread:Blew up my PICSTART 16B last night.

> Hmmm, you mean with the pins sticking up in the air? :) I have done it > hundreds of times w/o any problems VERY funny!!! > Go down to altex or MC Howards(both just south of IBM) and get a new > 4066BE desolder the old one and replace it. I have had one go bad on me > too(if that is in fact what yours is). Check the crystal and make sure > it is osc'ing. Check the 7805 and make sure it is regulating to 5V and > not something like 20. So, what is a 4066? I don't remember even seeing it on the board. If it was on the board, it wasn't hot. Do you remember the scenerio with yours? Did the 4066 get hot on you? > Zerox the invoice. Change the data to 9 months ago by cutting out > numbers with an exacto knife. Paste them on the xroxed invoice. Xerox > again. Cool! now its not a year old :) :) Yeah, yeah! -- -- Paul Greenwood -- (spam_OUTpabloTakeThisOuTaustin.ibm.com) But scientists, who ought to know Assure us that it must be so. Oh, let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about. -- Hilaire Belloc