Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: A3000 woes : @!#$!%%@! Message-ID: Date: 29 Jun 91 00:05:24 GMT References: <1991Jun21.204923.4609@comspec.uucp> <1991Jun28.055309.7222@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1991Jun28.074005.28074@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>074@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 35 arno@cbmnlu1.cbm.nl (Arno Griffioen) writes: >In article <1991Jun28.074005.28074@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> bja20850@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu >> >>I had my dealer install 4MB before he sent me the machine. He cut the sticke >>and didn't bother adding a new one either. Shouldn't they have a supply >>of these on hand??? No wait, I'm sorry, I forgot, this is commodore :) > >Why? A customer can open his A3000 without losing his/hers warranty (at >least that's the situation here), how else would you add boards or HD's? > >There is a second sticker covering a screw in the motherboard. This is the >_real_ warranty sticker and this may not be broken. > >Of coure, I don't know about the situation in the U.S., but I would be surpris >if opening the A3000 would void warranty. Especially when they give you a poster showing it opened up...And the little booklet that came with mine also showed you how to install the RAM(Which after installing it, I realized it would be easier to pay someone to do it for you...It wasn't hard, but kinda confusing and time consuming, not for someone in a hurry, a clutz, or a PARANOID) Speaking of hard drives, the empty 3.5" area won't let you mount a 3.5" Quantum, unless you drilled holes into the mounting plate and the darn power supply bracket to keep the drive from hitting the case...I was very disappointed in this...Is there any special plates that dealers can get to mount another internal 3.5 HD...and I was kinda surprised to find an E.C. on the backplane as well... -- C-UseNet V0.42f Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) People don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.