So does this mean I keep my warrenty If I send it here?

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Or better yet, does the rework come under warranty now?

When I purchased my mobo it was advertised as final, tested and working hardware, however no support would be provided for Linux but OS4 would come later- which sounds fair enough to me.

It did not say "for developers only" ! Please provide links to this written quote prior to June 2003 when I received/ordered my XE system (excluding SE Developer systems).

I do not see why I should pay to put the motherboard to its advertised specs .

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Or better yet, does the rework come under warranty now?

It says in the news item contact them for a estimate first, it also does not mention warranty (we have a warranty Eyetech refused to replace my faulty CPU fan )


Edit, and I had to pay to get my uboot re-flashed even though Eyetech new about the problem months before sending my motherbaord.

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I am sure the rules still apply so sending it in for fixing and you loose the warranty and if something goes wrong with your board it is your ass on the line.

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Problem is that some dealers "forgot" to mention this detail to customers in order to attract as many sales as possible.

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(edited) Earlybird Systems The 'Earlybird' Amigaone systems are in effect pre-consumer-production systems designed to let Amiga users who are capable and willing use the AmigaOne hardware now, under Linux. It also allows 'Earlybird' purchasers to hit the ground running when the end user version of OS4 is available, as there is likely to be a big surge in the demand for hardware when the end-user version of OS4 is released. Please note however that in buying an Earlybird system you are buying into a product that, from the software/firmware pont of view, inevitably needs further refinement before being able to be sold as a true consumer product. Support for the Earlybird systems is provided on mailing lists to which purchasers will be subscribed. So, in return, we are offering all users who wish to take up this 'Earlybird' offer a free, registered, copy of OS4 for the AmigaOne as soon as it becomes available. The Earlybird 'free OS4' offer will, we expect, represent a saving of around 10% on an Am migaOne-XE G3 motherboard This of course will not suit everybody, and if you want a switch-on-and-go AmigaOne system then this Earlybird offer is not for you. In this case we're afraid that you have a few more weeks to wait. We intend to drop the Earlybird offer on 31 March 2004.

The problem is that everyone were so happy to have an A1 and after that OS4, that we forgot about this beta form.

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Problem is that some dealers "forgot" to mention this detail to customers in order to attract as many sales as possible.

Er, like Eyetech you mean? Have you seen the 'Earlybird' adverts which Eyetech placed in 'Total Amiga'?

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Poster: Hyperionmp Date: 21-Feb-2005 14:16:48 Problem is that some dealers "forgot" to mention this detail to customers in order to attract as many sales as possible.

Are you saying that some delers deliberately missled their customers, and consequently comitted Fraud? I'm not stirring the pot here - just wanting clarification.

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Problem is that some dealers "forgot" to mention this detail to customers in order to attract as many sales as possible.

A bit of a cheap shot if you ask me. You should be grateful to the dealers that they wanted to sell this buggy hardware in the first place. I don't think they got much joy and / or money out of them anyway... And is has been your only source of income regarding OS4 so far.

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Er, like Eyetech you mean? Have you seen the 'Earlybird' adverts which Eyetech placed in 'Total Amiga'?

Well I've just checked issue 14 (on-line at totalamiga.org) and it quite clearly says its an earlybird system.


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@z5:

Hyperion is NOT responsible for the hardware, is that so hard to understand?

Any blame should be redirected to the manufacturer in Taiwan or wherever they are.

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So:

- no price
- nothing about the warranty like was said about the other fixes
- nothing about the SE models

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EDIT. See my next post.

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it quite clearly says its an earlybird system

Exactly! And nowhere does it say "for developers only".
It says:

"Earlybird offer: Buy now for immediate delivery with Linux/UAE and get OS4 FREE when released".

It is ABSOLUTELY CLEAR that 'Earlybird' means only that OS4 is not yet ready and has NOTHING to do with possible faulty hardware.

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- no price - nothing about the warranty like was said about the other fixes - nothing about the SE models

Er, fair enough. Good grief, I can't even take time out for a coffee and cleaning out the cat's litter without 2564321524 replies to the post arriving in the meantime.

Price is 50 euros, including VAT but excluding carriage.
The fix won't invalidate your warranty providing it's done by an official repair centre. Check with your dealer beforehand, of course, but neither Relec, Eyetech nor myself will consider the warranty lost - providing you've got the invoice.

As for the SE, I honestly haven't the foggiest idea. I traded mine in against an XE long ago, at the time Eyetech was giving part-credit for boards with unfixed Articia Ses. They weren't mentioned in the info I got, but that may have just been an oversight.
Bear with us on that one, will you? Eyetech are snowed under again just now...

@Troels

Well, if you prefer we can go the PC route, and simply deny there is any problem whatsoever, refuse to give any documentation and leave people to cope with it by themselves. After all, that's what VIA did to us...

Has anyone publicly thanked the poor unpaid developers who knocked their melt in trying to find the source of the problem, or even that unsung hero who went through Hell and back to actually isolate the damn thing?

And if you'd any experience at all in management, you'd have at least a slight understanding of what a huge job coordinating the A1/OS4 project really is.

@anarchic_teapot

It's not that people don't appreciate that the problem has been found and fixed, they do, but most people also feel like these things should be covered under warranty (like they would be in most products). Yes, it was mentioned in some of the ads that the software or firmware part of the system is incomplete, but nothing indicated that if hardware faults are discovered they wouldn't be fixed and people might end up paying extra to get the basic features working, regardless of whether the boards were meant for developers or not. Developers are also people and have the same rights as a consumer

I also wish these issues could have been handled better.

Sadly it seems to me that Eyetech and the dealers don't have the resources to handle these difficulties as well as they would have liked. And if the far east manufacturer is also to blame for issues, IMO Eyetech, the Dealers and Mai Logic are also victims themselves.

But hardware problems are not unique to the Amiga World in any way, for instance a giant like Microsoft just recalled more than 14.1 Million XBox power cords due to burns they sold years ago. However Microsoft has enough cash reserves (~60 Billion dollar) to buy all these 14.1 Million customers well over 20 free XBox replacement consoles as compensation each if they really wanted! Just to try to put things into perspective...

Having said all this I am happy that the problems are fixable and that the MicroA1 and newer AmigaOne-XE are without these issues. At least the A1 hardware and AOS4 has advanced enough to get a positive and supportive Ars Technica review already. Who would have thought this would happen a couple of years ago?

@anarchic_teapot

Eek.., sharp tongue, but it rings true.
Well said and thanks to all those hard working H/W & S/W Amiga people.

Cheers,
Tim