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Offline tone007

Re: Trade: BeBox dual 133MHz for Pegasos II System
« Reply #14 from previous page: July 01, 2010, 01:42:20 AM »
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Re: Trade: BeBox dual 133MHz for Pegasos II System
« Reply #15 on: July 01, 2010, 02:46:15 AM »
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I am not familiar with that machine or even know what it looks like. Would need more info and pics. I thought the old AmigaOnes had issues? Tj
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Re: Trade: BeBox dual 133MHz for Pegasos II System
« Reply #16 on: July 01, 2010, 03:55:21 AM »
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I am not familiar with that machine or even know what it looks like. Would need more info and pics. I thought the old AmigaOnes had issues? Tj


Broken/non-functional DMA, onboard sound was an issue (but was fixed by the community) onboard USB was/is non-functional (factory defect), stock cooling is HIGHLY suspect, they eat CMOS batteries like nobody's business, I think there was a DMA issue with the hard drives...

Essentially if you got an "old" amigaone, I'd be prepared to populate each and every slot and ignore any "onboard" hardware - get a sound card, get a NIC, get an ATA controller, obviously a video card, get a USB card, get an upgraded fan/heatsink.  Don't rely on anything the board itself has.
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Re: Trade: BeBox dual 133MHz for Pegasos II System
« Reply #17 on: July 01, 2010, 04:06:19 AM »
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Broken/non-functional DMA, onboard sound was an issue (but was fixed by the community) onboard USB was/is non-functional (factory defect), stock cooling is HIGHLY suspect, they eat CMOS batteries like nobody's business, I think there was a DMA issue with the hard drives...

Essentially if you got an "old" amigaone, I'd be prepared to populate each and every slot and ignore any "onboard" hardware - get a sound card, get a NIC, get an ATA controller, obviously a video card, get a USB card, get an upgraded fan/heatsink.  Don't rely on anything the board itself has.

I thought I saw something to this effect before in the forums.  :laughing:
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Re: Trade: BeBox dual 133MHz for Pegasos II System
« Reply #18 on: July 01, 2010, 04:12:18 AM »
BeBox is off the market.  Thanks though for the couple offers made but not interested in any trades anymore.  tj
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Re: Trade: BeBox dual 133MHz for Pegasos II System
« Reply #19 on: July 01, 2010, 04:30:46 AM »
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I thought I saw something to this effect before in the forums.  :laughing:
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Yeah once you stock it up with cards to perform the functions the boards don't I hear it's actually a pretty sweet rig and until/unless/if the A1000x or whatever it's called gets released, the original A1s of long ago are still the fastest A1 boxes on the block.
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Re: Trade: BeBox dual 133MHz for Pegasos II System
« Reply #20 on: July 01, 2010, 08:53:50 AM »
It's terrible, but the A1 seems to be pretty much down to luck of the draw... I bought one second hand a couple of years ago which had had some of the "fixes" carried out. As a result it works perfectly well for everyday use. Onboard IDE works in non-DMA mode but I've put in a card to replace that. USB works fine in USB 1 mode, and in 3 years I've only put one battery in it... Also, fitted a nice Zalman cooler and now the CPU peaks at around 30 degrees C. Not a great board at all, but when you get it working as you need it's pretty sweet, and still holds up well against the SAMs.
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Re: Trade: BeBox dual 133MHz for Pegasos II System
« Reply #21 on: July 01, 2010, 11:10:48 AM »
No issues I've seen with my early AmigaOne either, I'm betting it had a fix or two before I got it.
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Re: Trade: BeBox dual 133MHz for Pegasos II System
« Reply #22 on: July 01, 2010, 11:29:47 AM »
it does seem to be the luck of the draw. I got my a1 in 2003, it has had no fixes, and has the ioriginal cooling. All i have done is add a sii0680 card. I have no problems with stability or dma, and i've only replaced the battery once.
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Re: Trade: BeBox dual 133MHz for Pegasos II System
« Reply #23 on: July 01, 2010, 03:09:28 PM »
Yeah, that was the kicker - why, it's almost like the A1 boxes were eval boards built by hand and the quality was entirely hit-or-miss!

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