Amiga tech in the Pacific Northwest

[nineoc]

Hello all:

One of my A2000's has developed a problem. Can anyone recommend a technician in the
Pacific Northwest?

[Tripitaka]

Have you looked through the Amiga web directory yet?

http://amigaweb.gts.org/amicommercial.html

I'm not saying You'll find what you need but it's worth a look.

[nineoc]

Will do, thank you very much.

[mfletcher]

It goes without saying but NEVER send it to Doom Master (aka Hans Campbell, aka Goodwill guy, aka Doomy, aka Retrogreek, among many other nicks) in Oregon.

Search here and on other amiga forums for his poor references.

[nineoc]

Well, I certainly will keep this in mind. Thanks very much for the tip.

[Tripitaka]

It goes without saying but NEVER send it to Doom Master (aka Hans Campbell, aka Goodwill guy, aka Doomy, aka Retrogreek, among many other nicks) in Oregon.

Very well put! In fact, if anything even smells like Doomy, avoid it like the plague.

[desiv]

Also, if/when you find someone, let us know!!!!

My Amiga's are still happy so far (knocking on wood), but....  ;-)

desiv

[nineoc]

Have been speaking with a fellow by name of Glen VanDenBiggelaar in Edmonton, Canada,
who does Amiga repairs on the side. He has a backlog at the moment, and would not be able to review my machine for a month yet.

I will ask him for permission to provide his contact info.

[trekiej]

Glen VanDenBiggelaar : I have bought from him. He seems to be a decent fellow.

[dreamcast270mhz]

Glen's Store: Store.amigalounge.com

[nineoc]

Thought his name might ring a bell with someone.

Forgive my ignorance but what is meant by PM me?

Comment was made about Amiga Forever. I am attempting to use it on my PC.

I use my A2000 on a regular basis to do the following:

--Create images in DPaint

--Import them into a utility called Trace that converts the image to a rescaleable vector graphic.

--Then import it into Pro Page to create a document and size the image appropriately,
then print the document with a laser printer.

--My reasoning for Amiga Forever involvement is to have a platform if the Amigas decide to get finnecky.

--Is there another alternative?

Regards,

W

[dreamcast270mhz]

PM me, means send me a private message

[ffastback]

Glen's Store: Store.amigalounge.com

http://store.amigalounge.com/p215.html
WOW, $5000 for an Amiga 3000!

[Heiroglyph]

http://store.amigalounge.com/p215.html
WOW, $5000 for an Amiga 3000!

I caught that too.

He's just saying it's not for sale unless you'll offer him a mint for it.

I can't blame him, for the right crazy price you can get all my systems and I'll just start over

[nineoc]

So, thanks to a number of folks, my machine is up and running again.

Let's see if I can reconstruct the chain of events, as it is quite interesting, the way it played out:

First contact is this Forum, with my initial SOS call.

First response was from Tripitaka, who suggested I look through the web directory.

This led me, among other helpful folks, to Joe Muoio at Software hut, who suggested I talk to Ed Jeffries at Video Lab, telephone 913-403-0045, who suggested I pull the 060 to see if I would get a workbench screen.

Pulled the card, and the system did bring up the workbench screen, suggesting that the 060 is faulty.

Talking with Ed, I informed him that the card is a DKB Wildfire, from 1995. He immediately googled the thing and found some info on it. We discovered that there
were two locations that should have had jumpers on them that did not.

Finding two spare jumpers, I installed them on the two locations, and Voila, the machine has booted successfully five times, and is still running as we speak.

As to why it ever worked without the jumpers is anyone's guess.

All in all, I am EXTREMELY APPRECIATIVE to everyone who offered their opinions and suggestions, so thank you everyone.

This truly is a great community, and VIVA LAS AMIGAS.

Regards,

Wayne