A3000 - Cyberstorm MkIII problems

[Effy]

I´m glad it runs now. As you wrote before in a mail "but the card wasn't running the last 2 years. Right ?? I cleaned the whole card and after that the problem was solved. This was a really long trip and now I go to sleep 2 hours." the card has indeed been out of work for a while as the seller has stopped using Amiga and only uses WinUAE on his pc. Sorry you had to go to all the trouble but look at it from the good side : you now have a better buster  :lol:

[Effy]

Just got a mail from AmireX that it still doesn´t work 100% and that it often crashes while running or doesn´t even boot correctly. Now I know for sure that the card has worked 100% in the A4000 Micronik tower where it was removed, together with a Picasso IV and Paloma and Z3 Powerflyer and Highway and so on ...
AmireX wants his money back ... as he writes :"

"Hi Effy,
 
dont know why, but the card isn't working in my two A3k's. I'd tried really everything
but the card and / or the combination A3k and CSMkIII is instable. For a short moment
I thought it runs, but the same evening the trouble begans again. That means in detail:
 
- the A3k does'nt boot, the power LED keeps half bright and nothing more happens
or
- the A3k power LED blinks and later I get a green screen or a Software Failure (GURU)
 
If I turn off the amiga for a while (2 minutes) then it often boots correctly but crash's later
in a sofware failure. Maybe there is a contact problem which depends on temperature of
the card. I invested a lot of work and tested it in 2 A3k's with a lot of combinations (I
removed all cards and the whole FAST MEM (this is really hard work)). I cleaned the
card and tested it with my own SIMM rams to find the problem. Believe me, I really, really
would like to have it work in my A3k and up to now I never had such a trouble with
any expansion card.
 
So let us come together in any way. Your argument could be -- I destroyed the
card while installing it. But maybe it is not working in a A3k or it were destroyed
while dismounting it ?  So my suggestion - you pay back 200 euro and I sent
you back your card completly with rams, manuals, disk and the box. So I
learned never to this again and you can try to sell the card to another one with
the hint "dont know wether it works in a A3k".
 
I have a long experience in electronic and software because of my work, but nobody is
perfect. Maybe you get it to run.
 
Greetings, ReX"

Now what

[Effy]

AmireX : "- If you use SCSI devices on CSMKIII SCSI, the chain must be properly terminated (however I wouldn't install any SCSI devices on it until you manage to safely boot the system to the KS3.1 screen)

Not used."

In other words the scsi is not terminated

There were spaces in the package to mount the card in the processor slot, have you used them

Have you pushed the card hard enough into the processor slot

The 128 Mb memory was working when the card was in the tower, so that can not be the problem ...

You also wrote "Then I cleaned the whole card with distilled water, moved the 060 out and in and then back into the A3k and voila ...." but I learned that water on a pcb board is never good, or is it Have you removed the 060 processor like you wrote

[Effy]

Back home now, I do happen to do afternoonshift this week so that sounds like a good reason for not answering in the afternoon  :-)

AmireX : okay, I shall take your offer like you mailed me. Send the card back and you will get your money like you suggested. Do you feel better now :-?

You got more lucky that I did. I bought this WarpEngine040/40 in April. Card appeared not to work, tried two A4000´s and asked the help of two friends. I tried to get my money back, asked the seller for advice but he didn´t want to refund, started the procedure on PayPal but after a week I got the message that his account is too empty to get a refund ... meaning that I lost my money ... :-o

The other thing is that I am not the real seller as the money you sent me has been transferred to the account of the real seller without keeping a single cent !! So who got screwed now do you think  :-?  

[Effy]

Okay then. When the card arrives I shall send you the requested money. Please do send me a personal email with your IBAN+BIC codes ...

[Effy]

You mean something like this internal scandoubler that I intended to sell on Ebay but instead sold for 50 euro (exc. shipping) to somebody in the UK

[Effy]

Sorry. I´m not selling much these days but when I shall get something cool enough then I shall beg my girlfriend to pose for me  :lol:

[Effy]

Meanwhile AmireX has sent the card to Belgium but appearantly not to me but to thw original owner who doesn´t have an Amiga anymore as I bought his one. The additional problem is that the card has been "offered" by TaxiPost on Thursday morning but the original owner was out for work and the next time they come back is next week  :-o AmireX wrote me two mails to ask me where to send the card, but due to having done a lot of overtime at work I have replied a day later telling to send it to my own address which is at the bottom of each mail ... later that day I got the message back that he didn´t send it to me like I requested ... and now I still don´t have the card, so with all due respect, this means that I won´t do the refund yet until I have got it. Seems fair to me, doesn´t it  :-?

[Effy]

I prefer to think that the belgian Post has a bad carma, or never even had one ...  :lol:

[Effy]

Just for your information, the CS MK3 has finally arrived at the seller´s place and he has sent it to me today, so AmireX will get his requested refund. Fair is fair ...