Wow people still bidding even on her broken stuff heh

[mrbill317]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=320004072905

This seller has been labled as a ripoff on many sites due to her high start prices ect.

Anyone know what might be wrong with this board?

[Matt_H]

DCE Cyberstorms in general had a much higher failure rate than the phase5 ones.

The fact that the 060 has a better heatsink than the PPC (and the PPC has no fan) is very suspicious.

[Lando]

Nothing wrong with that auction.  She's being totally honest and saying it doesn't work.  Unlike many sellers who'll sell broken stuff as "untested, no returns".

She's obviously bought it as faulty from the previous owner and attempted to get it to work, failed, and so is now selling it on.

Maybe someone could buy it and send it to Amiga Center France.

[alenppc]

Also I'm not sure what does "This is the DCE board, which has the better 604 processor on it" mean, because DCE boards suck quality wise but the specs are exactly the same as those of phase5 boards, so I don't see how can it have a "better 604 cpu".

AmigaCentre in france can probably repair it though, they repaired mine and I can highly recommend them. The service was excellent.

[Ronmor]

I bidded on and won a harddrive labled as guaranteed no DOA, it wasn't dead but it had so many Read/write errors I could't use it. I E-mail the seller but no replay, never again will I bid on anything he/she sales.  :madashell:

[x56h34]

I'm sure that Amiga Center in France can fix the 060 side, however I am also more than sure that the PPC side will be dead and beyond repair. The card has no fan over the 604e heatsink, which almost guarantees a dead PPC side, as only a few minutes without active cooling could be deadly for the hot 604e CPU on CSPPC cards.

[Lando]

x56h34 wrote:
I'm sure that Amiga Center in France can fix the 060 side, however I am also more than sure that the PPC side will be dead and beyond repair. The card has no fan over the 604e heatsink, which almost guarantees a dead PPC side, as only a few minutes without active cooling could be deadly for the hot 604e CPU on CSPPC cards.

Maybe they could pick up an old 604e from a used Mac for $10 and get a company who does BGA reworking (DCE ?) to attach the CPU to the CSPPC.  It would be expensive but still cheaper than a new CSPPC.  While they're at it, they could even get a faster one installed (I think the 604e went up to 350 or 400Mhz?).

[BinoX]

I bought a "broken" A4000 a while back...

Waited for it to arrive, opened it up, reseated the ram and up it booted

[x56h34]

Lando wrote:

Maybe they could pick up an old 604e from a used Mac for $10 and get a company who does BGA reworking (DCE ?) to attach the CPU to the CSPPC.  It would be expensive but still cheaper than a new CSPPC.  While they're at it, they could even get a faster one installed (I think the 604e went up to 350 or 400Mhz?).

Certainly possible, but very hard to successfully pull off. You'd need to know of a company that would want to/could do it, and you'd need to be lucky that everything works out in the end, as you'd have to assume that by just attaching a new 604e the problem would be gone. I've heard reports that someone in Italy has managed to find a local company that successfully fixed the defective PPC-side on his CSPPC.

[Argus]

She's a clever lass though, got to give her credit.  She 'flips' amiga stuff, buys it cheap and sells it at the going market rate (on eBay).  Nothing wrong with it and her prices are not out of line with Amigakit, Softhut or any of the other vendors, so why not?  Anyway, I'd personally stay away from this DCE board, unless you're a riverboard gambler type.

The best deal by far I ever got was for a 'broken' A2000 on ebay...paid a penny for it.  Turns out the gary chip was installed backwards, that's why it wouldn't boot for the previous owner.  Flipped it around and works like a charm.  So the moral of the tale is, who knows?  One man's junk is another's ...you know what.

[adolescent]

IIRC, the BIN was ~$190 on this one from the previous seller.  Funny thing, I don't remember the cooler being removed but I can't find the auction now.