Hi, I found the site for MCE, but could you give me the URL for DT & T
?........thanks....JWS.

Jim Scolman
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From: ahclist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 3:30 PM
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Subject: [Duo2400] Re: how do they do that?


>Say Mark, while you're in there, can you figure out how MCE does their
>cardbus upgrade for us? ; ^)
>
>Seriously though, I would guess it would be important for DT&T to be
"vague"
>about what they are actually doing for their $295 logic board fix, but it
>would disturb me to know that the flat fee charged could be for fixing a
>broken connector. When my 2400 when down for the count it happened during a
>heat wave, which would lead me to believe something fried. It's probably
>just easier to just swap out a board than diagnose the problem in the long
>run.
>
>Andy

Andy,

Here are your first clues: often, what is blown is a $5 fuse on one of 
the boards, or a collection of capacitors.  It is having the ability to 
replace those fuses (and having the fuses :)  ) that you are paying for.  
Depends entirely on mode of failure, of course.  DT and Brian have 
figured out a lot of the failure points -- also including the thermal 
transfer problems the list has discussed before.  Marc also brought up 
what should become obvious: there may be fit tolerance issues with the 
newer upgrade cards working loose, another cause of green-light-of-death. 
 After Hours has done the same types of repairs on dozens of 2400s (so I 
know a think or two about which I pontificate :) ) -- but we are not 
advertising as much due to the demands of the webhosting on us.  If only 
there was a replacement for the 2400.  Hell, I'm even thinking of selling 
my 3400 for an iBook to frankenstein into a brushed metal case.

back to the shadows for me.

laters

paul



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