#: 19372 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    21-Nov-93  23:06:09
Sb: #19052-#Review: 340 Upgrade
Fm: Dieter G. Rossmann 70314,1766
To: Zack Sessions 71532,1555 (X)

Well, I got my 68340 upgrade board two weeks ago, made the new boot disk, no
problem doing the boot disk...    Then I oppend up the MM1, removed the 68070
chip, the roms, replaced the pall chips with the faster chips supplied,  pluged
in the 68340 upgrade board, set the wait state pins, replaced the I/O board,
and powerd up the MM1, and got exactly NOTHING, the MM1 was dead...   No screen
no drive lights, Nothing!   So I reinstalled the old  CPU (68070) and the old
ROMS, but left in the new palls, reset the wait state, reassembled the whole
thing and powered up the MM/1 again, wholla it booted up No problem...

So I reinstalled the 68340 board and ROMM's again, and still NOTHING!  On
axamining the 68070 socked where the new board plugs in, and it looks like the
traces of the plug on the 68340 board plug dont meet the contact of the socked,
the traces are a little recessed a little in plastic fins, and cant make
contact with the new board...

The old 68070 chip's contacts are curled and stand of the ship a little, and
they go in the the recessed fins to make contact in the socket's contacts, the
contacts on the 68340 board's plug must also stand off about 2 milimeters to
make cantact with the sockets contacts...

But the board I got had contats on the boards plug that where imbetted flush,
and could not make the required contact for proper operation...

BlackHawk Enterprises is sending me a new 68340 board, hope that will plug in
proper...

G'Day!

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