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

Eric Cables ecables at gmail.com
Thu Apr 15 10:03:11 EDT 2010


If cisco gives you grief I'd love to hear about it.

On 4/15/10, 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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