[c-nsp] heat fins popping loose on WS-X67xx cards

Andriy Bilous andriy.bilous at gmail.com
Thu Apr 15 09:34:05 EDT 2010


We've had one of those, was accepted for RMA without any further questions
through channel partner.

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Tassos Chatzithomaoglou <achatz at forthnet.gr
> wrote:

> One year after the original post, i "finally" met the same issue on a
> 6748-GE-TX card.
> Anyone got any complaints from Cisco about RMAing it?
>
> --
> Tassos
>
> Jay Ford wrote on 29/05/2009 16:58:
>
>> On Fri, 29 May 2009, Tassos Chatzithomaoglou wrote:
>>
>>> Can someone please take a photo and upload it somewhere, so everyone else
>>> can better understand what exactly is the issue you're talking about?
>>>
>>
>> Take a look at:
>>   http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jnford/images/IMG_0589.jpg
>>   http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jnford/images/IMG_0590.jpg
>> The first shows the "Z1" socket in the background with the fuzzy loop in
>> the foreground. The second shows the heat fin & loop in the foregraound with
>> the socket in the background.  The loop is supposed to be in the Z1 socket.
>>
>> Based on the responses I've received it seems that this is a fairly common
>> failure due to a design flaw.  I got the usual "that's strange; nobody else
>> is having this problem" from Cisco.  I now have ample justification for
>> telling them "bull".
>>
>> Thanks everybody.
>>
>> Jay
>>
>>
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