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From: ca063@unocss.UUCP (Thomas Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: BUSEXPANDER from Bill's Boards
Message-ID: <456@unocss.UUCP>
Date: 21 Oct 88 20:38:26 GMT
References: <10169@cup.portal.com>
Organization: U. of Nebraska at Omaha
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From article <10169@cup.portal.com>, by Dalamar@cup.portal.com (E H Mahler):
> 
>  Has anybody tried the BusExPander from Bill's Boards (distributed
> by Comp-u-save)? It claims to be an expansion board with at least
> 6 Amiga 2000 style slots and 6 IBM style slots. This configuration can

     Me and a good friend bought one of these boards at AmiExpo in
Chigaco in July.  We also decided to buy the baby AT case and power
supply deal they offered JUST for AmiExpo customers.  Upon finally
arriving home, (after being out of town for close to 2 weeks), I found
out the power supply was bad.

     I called Compu-u-Save, who said to call Bill's Boards.  I called
and left a message on their answering machine.  No reply.  I called again.
Same thing.  I called Comp-U-Save, and they called Bill's Boards for me.
The next day, I finally got a reply.  I shipped the power supply back
to them, to have them declare it ok (problem was the damn thing had some
loose component in it), and they shipped it back.  It still didn't work.
I promptly called them back, and got a some girl, who took my name, number,
and said they would call right back.

     They did, and I talked to Tom Olsen.  I installed the power supply back in,
with doing as Tom said to do.  I ended up shipping the WHOLE system back
to them.  They returned it, with a replacement power supply.  It worked, BUT,
it didn't like my Amiga.  The Amiga would boot with JUST the Expander plugged
in, BUT as soon as I added the 2 meg RAM card, it died.  I took the whole
system over to my friend's apartment, and it worked like a champ on his
system.  (for those interested, my 1000 has the slow pals, and grounding
them didn't help it any.)  I wanted soo much to have an Amiga with 3.5 megs
of memory.  I even went as far as removing the internal 1 meg add-on memory
card, (it's Squeeze RAM..) to see if it was any cause of the problems.
(it helped, some, but not much..)

     It worked till about 2 weeks ago.  I picked up the system Sunday,
looked at again, and from everything from before, and the fact the power
supply worked after I moved it (it then stopped working when I moved it back),
it looks to be another bad PS.  I called Bill's Boards on Tuesday I believe,
and talked to the girl again.  I have yet to hear anything back from them.

    In conclusion, I regret buying the powersupply from Bill's Boards,
not because they ignore my phone calls, but it's over 2,000 miles to get
it serviced.  The system looks like it will work ok, and when the power
supply works, my friend just LOVES the 2 megs.  Now if I can just get
a hold of GOOD powersupply..

    As for the board itself, it's well built, and solid.  You should
have no problems with it other than finding space to the board, powersupply
and case for it..


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