Back on my A1! :-)

[Wilse]

After three and a half months with no A1, I'm finally back up and running again.

I fried the CPU and had to send it to Amiga Repair Center in France.

I've just upgraded to Update 4 and, bugger me, HD-Rec absolutely flys!

Happy again.... :-)

[Wilse]

@humppa:

Jeezy-chreezy, do I really sound that enthusiastic?
Shoot me now! :roflmao:

[Wilse]

> reminds me of an Eddie Izzard skit !

That's probably where I got the expression.

[Wilse]

> If I were you, I'd sell it before it dies again..

It didn't die of it's own accord - I killed it.

I'm actually thinking of punting my Peg1 now.
I haven't switched it on for a month and have instead been using an iBook.
Now that I have this A1 and a WinXP box on the way, I'm unlikely to use the Peg much at all.

[Wilse]

redrumloa wrote:

It didn't die of it's own accord - I killed it.

Did you really though

Most definitely. I replaced the fan with a heatsink but didn't secure it properly, resulting in no cooling.
Entirely my own fault.
Bear in mind I had the thing for a few years by this point.

Hardware compared to hardware, personally I'd trust the Pegasos more.

Couldn't agree more. It's a far more elegant machine and totally silent.

Software to software (OS4 - MOS), both look to be DOA.

This is the kicker for me. The latest update of OS4 means I no longer need MOS. In my opinion OS4 is now a much nicer environment than MOS. At the risk of sounding like a sad tadger I'd even go as far as to say it is more amiga-like.
There is now only one thing I can think of that I can use my Pegasos for but not my A1 - Pro Station Audio.
If I don't punt the Pegasos, PSA will be the sole reason.

But anyhow, don't get me wrong. I'm sure it's probably fun to tinker with:-) Keep and use what you want. I'm glad it's working again for you.

Cheers. I'm still astonished at how well HD-Rec seems to work.
(Crashes out opn my Peg after one play, rendering it almost, but not quite unusable.)

I can now use my A1 as a multitracker/fx box/etc....

[Wilse]

I'm under the impression that they are quite flakey and prone to failure. I would never buy one,  

It's all perception. When my Pegasos arrived it was faulty and was eventually replaced. The new one has worked beautifully ever since. When my A1 arrived it was fine but could only run linux. Then it ran OS4 beautifully until Hogmanay, when the fan went.

Having had experience of both sides of this particular coin I would say that both machines are nice and, while I'd love to see OS4 on the Peg, it isn't going to happen anytime soon.
Given the above, I prefer the A1.
(but only by a bawherr... ;-))

[Wilse]

cecilia wrote:
@Wilse

congrats on getting your system up! Yippy!

Thanks cecilia.

Agafaster wrote:
Mines been fine since day one - the only flakiness is getting the USB to pop up when I power up the Hub.
everything else is fine.

do you have the NEWEST OS4 release - there's been several updates, and YES they all make a big difference.
The amiga meeting I attend have a beta tester so we get to see the OS develop nearly right in front of our eyes. (on a monthy basis, of course  :lol:  )

just last friday I had a look and plugged my USB flash drive and, removed it, plugged it back in, and it worked just dandy.

I just tried this with the front USB ports on my A1. Using the bottom port, I could plug and unplug my smartcard reader and copy and delete files, no problem.
Using the top port I get a message saying the device could not be mounted.
Not a problem for me. I'll just use the bottom port.

Now I'm just trying to figure out how to get the screen blanker working.

[Wilse]

@ Wilse congrats. Thank GOD for this repair center. Amazing that Eyetech wont honor warranties on those $900 prototype boards...

I'm not sure if you're being deliberately disingenius or if you really think my 12 month warranty should last for five years.

My A1 lasted well past it's warranty expiration and my heatsink/fan shenanigans would probably have made it void anyway, so *Please* stop spreading BS. ;-)

[Wilse]

uncharted wrote:

Wilse wrote:
Then it ran OS4 beautifully until Hogmanay, when the fan went.

Hmmn, I wonder if the timing of the botched fan job is a coincidence ;-)

The timing of the fan stopping working probably had a lot to do with the fact that my house had something like 60 *very* wasted people in it at the time and the A1 was being used for the music, via "amp".

The botched repair occurred a week or so later.

[Wilse]

Well as you know even if it WAS within 12 months we all know that Eyetech doesnt honor the warranty.

So? You've used what happened to me as an excuse to bash Eyetech, when, as you WELL KNOW, it had hee-haw to do with them.

And I will add the bplan repairs peg boards free of charge well after warranty.... so bs that.

Good on them but what relevance has that, or Eyetech's warranty fulfillemnt, to my situation? None, whatsoever.
Do the words "fan boy" or "zealot" mean anything to you?
:roll:

[Wilse]

This post is so full of self-righteous, irrelevent, paranoid bollox that it's difficult to know where to begin so I'll address your points one at a time:

Its not bashing..

Wrong. That's exactly what it is. You may not be able to see this, due to your own one-sided perspective, but it's bashing all the same.

its called tired of A1 people posting falsehoods

I'm the so-called "A1" person who started this thread.
Please, can you tell me where I've posted a falsehood?

and correcting them.

Or where you've corrected me?

Thats not bashing its called telling the truth.

It would be if that was what you had done but, unfortunately, what you did was nothing of the sort.

Everyone hates Genesi and blames them for all kinds of problems

Straw man alert!
Genesi were excellent to me. Cheap Peg1, followed by replacement when it turned out to be faulty.
No problem with them from my personal perspective.

So this is your excuse for using this thread to slag Eyetech?
Absolutely pathetic, mate, honestly....

but what about Amiga inc? They are the real culprits and they killed the Amiga not Genesi, not bbrv.

Awwww.... get over yourself, FFS!

And Eyetech, who I had lots of respect for not honoring warranties on 800 protoype motherboards is just PITA.

800?
I think you might telling a wee white lie here, no?

You need to lie down, Magnetic. You're bginning to sound like Samface's evil twin....

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