[rescue] Missing chip on SS20?

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Fri Jun 7 09:06:30 CDT 2002


On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:

> http://www.csh.rit.edu/~kurt/haul-pictures/missing_chip.jpg
> 
> Is this SS20 toast?  Did someone rip a vital component off?
> Or is it to absorb heat from the CPU placed above it?

According to the Sun Handbook, that chip is on the bottom-side of the
system board.  However, I doubt if the system will run well without that
heat sink.

I could've sworn the chip's on the top side of that board, though.  It's
been a while since I took an SS20 apart.

--Jonathan



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