off-topic: Telling chips apart?

[Glenn Ervin at Home]

Also Igor,
If you are going to be removing the processor, pay attention to the feel of
the 4 corners of the Processor when you remove it.
One corner is beveled off, and it must go back in the same way.
Glenn.
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From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
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Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: off-topic: Telling chips apart?


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well the cpu is obvious it's large and square and has a heatsink
sitting on it. it's also in a zif socket.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at
10:32:37AM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
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> Hi all. Has anyone figured out a good way to tell chips apart on a
> circuit board? Because I've tried many times, however they are all
> shaped the same so I can't tell the difference between say, a CPU and an
> EEPROM. Just wondering if anyone has encountered a similar or same
> problem. And if so what was/were the sollutions? Thanks!
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