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

[Tassos Chatzithomaoglou]

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?

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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
>