Corrupting chip?

[dave w]

So any ideas, or anyone have anything like this happen before? I haven't read anything like this before.

After about 1 year of working perfectly, the ZIF socket (low profile) that was installed on a G1 Memcal adapter board cause many of problems your experiencing. I removed the ZIF socket and installed the chip directly into the G1 Memcal adapter board. Some 6 years later, with the chip installed directly into the G1 Memcal adapter board the chip is still working flawlessly.