@abalaban

Great post. Thanks for the info.
I'm going to try the new battery holder thing first.

I don't think my cpu is the problem. I get a serial port read out.
Which shows the cpu and ram and then..

flash 0 bad crc

Many Thanks

@PhantomInterrogative

Very good to know. I didn't know about anyone in the US.
If the battery holder replacement doesn't work.

Kurt Grach may be my next step.

once again, many thanks

@SACC-dude

When my CPU need a reflow this *was* the symptoms : intermittent UBoot appearance with full boot into OS4 or without and Uboot errors at different steps (GFX card init error, RAM detection/init errors etc.)

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@Johan

Hello,

Do you have some news about your reflow CPU at retronix / arcosss ????

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@Mrodfr

No, no news yet. The processormodule has been away now for 16 days. I have been told it could easily take 2 - 3 weeks, so there is no need to worry yet. And though I get along with Ubuntu nicely, I really miss my Amiga. This is the first time in 20 years that I am Amiga-less!



johan

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@Johan

and do you have other point to share with us, for example:

- repair warranty ???
- the cost (really 190 euros) ???
- send to arcoss (belgium) ???
- the contact with them (surprised because amiga,...) ???
- maybe they made replacement CPU with a more powerfull) ???

hope all will goes well for your amiga

BTW, keep us informed, because maybe Alex or dieter groppe or other A1 owners... will be interested....

Last edited by Mrodfr on 14-Jun-2010 at 02:06 PM.

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-SAM440EP-667mhz-on MapowerKC3000+AOS4.1

Amiga Docs Disks Preservation Project

@Mrodfr

Warranty?! My machine is 7 years old, and it's manufacturer (Eyetech) and dealer (ComputerCity) both left the Amigascene, so I didn't really expect any warranty.

Arcoss didn't seem surprised to hear it concerns an Amiga. But after all:for them it is just another ordinary G4-processor, which they have reballed or reflowed many times.

They said reballing is going to cost me 190,- euros, which was fine by me. I sent the processorboard to their workshop in Belgium, nicely wrapped and stowed in a strong plastic box.

Contact with them went through e-mail, nicely and to-the-point.

So far, so good I'd say.


johan

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@Johan

About warranty, It's just for reflow/reball the processor. Maybe they made a 1 or 3 months warranty for the work (Allways seen that reball/reflow is an hard task with not allways 100% success).

Thanks for answering my questions...

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-SAM440EP-667mhz-on MapowerKC3000+AOS4.1

Amiga Docs Disks Preservation Project

@Mrodfr

Ah, yes, of course. THAT kind of warranty...
Well, they didn't mention it and I didn't ask. Maybe I should have asked.


johan

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