Need Amiga Mother Board Repairs in U.S. or I'm Out.

[XDelusion]

So you sent out all 4 boards you were talking about? Make sure you post back and let us known how it worked out !

I'm sending them as I can afford to get them fixed, so so far there is just an A600 on it's way.  And yes I shall be sure to come back singing his praises very soon me hopes!

[Blatboy]

I'm coming to this party late, but I can vouch for Charles.  He's really active and helpful on the 68kmla.org forum (I dabble in classic macs too... I'm ratting myself out!) and I've done business with him before..  I've ordered some SCSI drives from him and he was great.  I'm betting he'll do a great job.  I'm planning possibly on using one of those SCSI drives I got from him in my A500 HD setup...

[XDelusion]

I'm coming to this party late, but I can vouch for Charles.  He's really active and helpful on the 68kmla.org forum (I dabble in classic macs too... I'm ratting myself out!) and I've done business with him before..  I've ordered some SCSI drives from him and he was great.  I'm betting he'll do a great job.  I'm planning possibly on using one of those SCSI drives I got from him in my A500 HD setup...

Glad to hear, I've had good feelings about him already.

[Pakrat]

This may be just the ticket for fixing one or all three (eventually) of my 4000 motherboards, as while AmigaKit may do an awesome job, the cost of sending one and having it sent back from the UK may sway me in this direction. With only a mostly working 1200HD that isn't connected to the net, it's only a poor substitute for my last rather hot rodded 4000 setup, which would be made faster merely by updating 3 or 4 year old libraries/datatypes/drivers, etc. Please let us know how it goes. ^^ Reanimating my 4000 would reopen my 130XE's access to new software via sneakernet shared 720K PC formatted disks. This old mac is pretty comfortable, but I really miss having my 68K supercomputer.

[danbeaver]

While I did not consider shipping costs a factor ($83 USD to send four A4000D motherboards by USPS Priority Express) to Anthony Hoffman in NZ an issue, his turn around time was about 6 days with a return time of 4 days; it took a bit over 2 weeks to get all four boards back in complete restored condition with a detailed repair report and thorough check.  He repaired bad tracks, all caps, and recalibrated crystals.  Very, very impressive, and which such a short turn around for 4 nonworking to perfectly working motherboards, highly worthwhile.

[XDelusion]

So I got my A600 back from

http://maccaps.com/MacCaps/Repair_Service.html

New Caps, repaired bad cap job from previous electrician in fact.
Pulled PCMCIA from my flakey 600.
ACA now seems to function without crashing (yet).
Audio is PERFECT!
PCMCIA works flawlessly!

It's like new, the guy is very friendly, very cost effective, honest, not to mention talented.

[XDelusion]

This may be just the ticket for fixing one or all three (eventually) of my 4000 motherboards, as while AmigaKit may do an awesome job, the cost of sending one and having it sent back from the UK may sway me in this direction. With only a mostly working 1200HD that isn't connected to the net, it's only a poor substitute for my last rather hot rodded 4000 setup, which would be made faster merely by updating 3 or 4 year old libraries/datatypes/drivers, etc. Please let us know how it goes. ^^ Reanimating my 4000 would reopen my 130XE's access to new software via sneakernet shared 720K PC formatted disks. This old mac is pretty comfortable, but I really miss having my 68K supercomputer.

So I got my A600 back from from Michigan. Only took 1 day for it to get back after it was shipped so he's close.

http://maccaps.com/MacCaps/Repair_Service.html

New Caps, repaired bad cap job from previous electrician in fact.
Pulled PCMCIA from my flakey 600.
ACA now seems to function without crashing (yet).
Audio is PERFECT!
PCMCIA works flawlessly!

It's like new, the guy is very friendly, very cost effective, honest, not to mention talented.

[Nlandas]

I've asked this before and never received a response, so I'm going to ask once more.
Aside allowing my self to be raped shipping my Amigas to Canada, is there anyone here in the U.S. that will work on Amiga mother boards?

 So anyhow, if anyone knows anyone within this country of ours, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get in touch, thank you!

This company can repair almost anything electronic. If you can describe exactly what you need done they can tell you if it's something that they'd do.

http://www.unitedradio.com/

Let us know what you find out.

-Nyle

[giZmo350]

Nice Link! I have a Fisher KX-200 Tube Amp that needs new HV Filter Caps... not such a hard repair but, of course, when a filter cap (tri-cap) blew it took out some weird analog protection circuit with it. DOH! :hammer: Maybe they can help me! Thanks!