[c-nsp] heat fins popping loose on WS-X67xx cards
Kevin Graham
kgraham at industrial-marshmallow.com
Mon Jun 15 13:59:03 EDT 2009
> 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.
Just unpacked a WS-X6748-GE-TX and found a loose jumped in the bag. Thanks to
this thread, gave a slight push to the heat fin and off it came, with jumper
Z1 suspiciously absent.
> 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".
Indeed. Given the number of instances cited here alone, I'm really surprised
there hasn't been a field notice.
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