I AM GETTING VERY FED UP WITH ALL OF THIS BITCHING REGARDING REPAIRS !!!!!!!!

this happens everytime there is a news item regarding a1's.....


all i can say is

..btw no i haven't repaird mine yet.


@all: hurry , release a bunch of sw and add news items so this thread goes onto page 2

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Eek.., sharp tongue,

Heheh, no, it's a big stick.
Actually, despite all the inevitable bitching, I'm impressed by the amount of reads and the reaction the message has produced. The Amiga is dead? Yeah, sure...

@anarchic_teapot

Sharp teeth too, AND big stick. :)

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Tim

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EDIT: I have removed my post, not because I don't mean what I wrote but because I feel it didn't add any value to the discussion.

I still don't like the way things have been handled and hope Eyetech will be more open about future problems.

I never payed anything* for a warranty repair for ANY other computer product (and I have had MANY repaired) and hope that is the way it will be in the future Amiga market aswell. (*I have paid shipping costs, normally oneway only).

No special rules apply to the Amiga market where I live and I guess it's the same around the world. Having said that I (and most other people) have an understanding about the current state of the Amiga market and if Eyetech/dealers are honest and actually inform us about the problems i'm sure problems can be solved.

This community also needs to get rid of things like coupons, Earlybird offers and other stuff like that, that can easily be misunderstod when the information is not crystal clear and it certainly has not been that.

Thanks to all who have invested time and money in making this Amiga comeback possible, especially the developers making OS4 and those making software for it.

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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.

I understand allright :) It seems that nobody is responsible anymore for the boards (as your response clearly indicates aswell), now that it is obvious that they are quite buggy.

Never said they were responsible in any case. Just thought it to be a bit of a cheap shot of Mr.Hermans to blame it on the dealers (even more so because many ppl, including him, kept claiming everything was just fine with the boards right until there wasn't any way out anymore).

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@ Troels

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We could go the PC route but certainly dealers CAN'T DENY there's any problem.

They don't, that's why this news item and Guru meditation's earlier announcement actually exist. Gunne of GGS-Data also said they and Vesalia in Germany are trying to address these issues together with Eyetech to the best of their ability.

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Does special rules work here?

IMO yes and no. Basicly any commercial company tries to do its best to a certain extend. But the main objective is to create a profit or to *at least* to stay in business. Sadly for the Amiga market the second mentioned objective seems to be more of relevance at this point of time.

Let's say Eyetech would pay the ~50 Euros / board required to address these issues themselves. This would mean not a handful but many hundreds of boards, probably even well over half of the boards they have distributed over several years time! IMO a bankrupt Eyetech would not be in the best interest of the AmigaOS4 community.

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@Troels

"We could go the PC route..."

If Hyperion did that, the price of OS 4 would be around 2500-3000 euro per copy just to recuperate the development costs and that's a very conservative estimate.

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I am happy with my SE and the bugs i take with it.

The XE's are a bit better and can be fixed (or use the alternative)
The Micro's are again better and the known bugs are gone
The next motherboard will be even better ...

So my conclusion is that we are on the right track.

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" kept claiming everything was just fine with the boards right until there wasn't any way out anymore"

Actually no, Hyperion never claimed everything was alright with the boards, we claimed that none of the issues described by bPlan/Genesi regarding the Articia S were anywhere near as serious as they claimed or even existed.

The fact is that there are now fully working Micro-A1 boards with DMA using the exact same Articia S chips, effectively proving that Hyperion was right in that respect all along.

The problems that surfaced were not related to the Articia S but rather to the VIA (IDE) or the production company putting capacitors instead of resistors on the last batch of XE boards (USB).

It is also a fact that some dealers are offering these fixes to their customers for free, others are not.

Some dealers have supplied free Silicon Images 680 IDE controllers.

Criticising is always easy but the fact remains that some people have put their money where their mouth is.

If you believe Eyetech and Hyperion can take on the full financial burdern of resurrecting the platform alone, think again.

We might consider ripping off the French state, bankrupting a few companies and sticking the OS 4 developers with sizeable unpaid invoices but we'd rather do business in a honest manner without handing out free bees using other people's money.

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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.

I ordered mine direct from Eyetech based on all officialy available literature/advertisements on the internet and magazines I could find . I made a point of knowing what I was buying, I read the small print.


Since the problems have become known Eyetech have tried to back fit quotes like 'developer system' but none of this was mentioned until much much later.


I understand that with linux we were on our own and I understand that OS4 is still a developer pre-release. I have no problems with the software.

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The problems that surfaced were not related to the Articia S but rather to the VIA (IDE)

Speaking of which, you wouldn't be able to say whether the software initialization of the VIA chip is still a priority, or if that turned out to be a dead end without their assistance?

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@Hyperionmp

I hear you! You're absolutely correct in everything you wrote.
But.. I don't think you should drag up the last stuff you wrote.
Some people might take it the wrong way.


@thread

I think it's great that Eyetech has struck a deal like this.
Now we actually have an OFFICIAL SERVICE CENTER if something
goes wrong. Warranty kept and everything. Is this bad? No IMHO!

What's bad though is that you'll have to pay for the repairs yourself.

But I can understand that Eyetech doesn't have the resources to
handle repairs of this magnitude. Guys take note that EVERY
board has to be fixed. This is no mere 5-10% of the boards.
This would have costed Eyetech more than they have gotten in
return for the sales of ALL A1's put together.

All in all I think this is a great gesture from Eyetech's part.


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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.

Thanks. That part about the warranty is good news.

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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.

Ok.

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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.

Everyone should watch "the Bath' video with Alan. It lays out what dealers etc. should be doing, costs etc., It helps to understand the bigger picture.

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Who would have thought this would happen a couple of years ago?

You did Mike!

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It was Anarchic_teapot who mentioned the possibility to go the PC route not me.
What I meant was that if they choose to do so, they still couldn't deny the fact that the hardware is faulty. Anyway, personally I find it nice to be dealing with most PC companies so going the PC route would be a nice thing IMHO:)

I tend to agree that special rules apply, well legally they don't but if Eyetech and the dealers are honest and open about the problems most people will understand.
Whether or not Eyetech should pay the 50 Euro is a case between them and the dealers not between custemors and dealers. If that would banckrupt Eyetech I would feel very sad but atleast they would have played by the rules.

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I don't see anything in your post which actually has anything to do with what i wrote but that's ok. The only point i was making: don't blame it on the dealers. End of story.

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Hi

Posting here again

Posted also the same information on the A1 Norden mailinglist.

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The information and documentation we and other resellers got says:

Fixes is not something thats recommended,... and so it is not by GGS-Data.

The recommended solution for DMA is to use a Silicon Image Ultra-ATA controler until software fix is found.

For USB a low price USB-hub is recommended.

Any modification undertaken to an A1-XE board, including this modifications, may invalidate any remaining warranty on the board.

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And to our costumers of AmigaOne XE-boards

GGS-Data can do the modification for you who wish it to be made. Costs of material is not very high. And we can start with this after the PUSH event.

We can also send the information to you who wish it, upon your request. Please contact us by email or phone in that case. That is if you perhaps feel its easier to find a good solution closer to yourself.

Information will also come up on our webpage.

Very welcome !

Gunne

Last edited by gunne on 21-Feb-2005 at 09:56 PM.

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The fix won't invalidate your warranty providing it's done by an official repair centre

So there is a warranty, but what is it good for, if it behaves like there wasn't one, ie. you have to pay the repair? Or are there certain things (to repair) which would behave like normal warranty repair, ie. you don't have to pay repair? If so what/who decides if some specific repair falls under one category or the other?