You got two puffs of magic smoke from one device and then it starts to work?
In this case I would replace the part. I have had voltage regulators break a leg and then dump the voltage in into the voltage out taking a lot of stuff with it. Steve Meier DJ Delorie wrote: >>I have dead bugged voltage regulators a number of times due to uhm >>dsylexic reading of pinouts. I have never had a deadbugged voltage >>regulator properly wired then cause damage to another component. So >>relax, smile, fix the pinout issue because you really hate yourself when >>you do the same thing for the same device...twice. >> > >Well, the problem is that it was powered up while it was IMproperly >wired. There was a cloud of smoke and everything. I rewired it and >got a second puff of smoke, but the third time I powered it up it >seemed to work properly. I'm just worried that it will fail in the >future and fry the ethernet chip. > >I'm thinking I burned out the protection diodes, but now that they're >all dead open everything else seems to be OK. > > >_______________________________________________ >geda-user mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
