Re: PYXIS machine check

["Wes Bauske" <wsb paralleldata com>]

Edward Lukacs wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Also, you can use an eraser on the end of a pencil to
> > clean the contacts on the SIMM/DIMM.
> >
> >
> > Wes
> >
> Wes,
> 
> This is true, but after many years of working with circuitry,
> I would suggest that the common red rubber eraser on a lead
> pencil is not a good choice.  The white vinyl (I think) eraser
> sticks that go in a holder, as used for drafting, are far better.
> They very tenaciously grab the foreign matter while not abrading
> the contact surface anywhere near as badly as ordinarty erasers.
> 

OK.

Just repeating what my IBM HW guy told me to do if I
had memory errors. Probably the pencil end ones are too
hard of material from your description.


Wes