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#91 Post by **Harryc** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 4:19 am

Not yet George. As soon as the 2nd machine comes back from Superior Reball I will do that.

#92 Post by **Harryc** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:44 am

Project Status - The 2nd A31P shipped out today to Superior Reball.
Here's the current financial status;

Expenditures to date;

Initial balance - $225
Shipping to get the 2nd A31P here - $23
Superior Reball Service - $50
Shipping to Superior Reball - $17.05
Remaining Balance - $134.95

Also, with the receipt of the HD caddy screws today from Brad, I believe that we have all of the parts needed to complete one machine.

#93 Post by **underclocker** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:14 pm

Can't wait to hear about Superior Reball's results. What a great name, Superior Reball.

proaudioguy · #94 Post by **proaudioguy** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:25 pm

ajkula66 wrote:It is quite unlikely that a board from 1.6 A31 would be a good fit for an A31p...

16MB VRAM vs. 64MB on A31p

No S-video

No Firewire

Most likely no BT or wireless capability...

Why do you make the assumption that an A31 has 16 megs of VRAM? Both of my A31s had/ have 32 megs of VRAM. I'll admit I'd still prefer the 64.

I think you guys should just sell me this one as is cheap so I can use the parts!

ajkula66 · #95 Post by **ajkula66** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:12 pm

A31 units came with both 16 and 32MB of RAM, depending on what type of LCD they were driving by factory specs. All XGA models have come with 16MB of VRAM, while SXGA+ units were packed with 32MB.

I am not aware of an A31 with 1.6CPU and SXGA+ LCD.

Hope this explains the situation...

#96 Post by **rkawakami** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:49 pm

2652-D4U has 1.6Ghz CPU and 15" SXGA+. I have one

ajkula66 · #97 Post by **ajkula66** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:54 pm

OK, something new can be learned every day...

...from Ray...

#98 Post by **Harryc** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:24 pm

The A31p was delivered at 10:41 AM on October 8, 2008 to Superior Reball. The EBay auction said "Same day to 5 day turn time max. " So, now the clock starts on their service.

proaudioguy · #99 Post by **proaudioguy** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 4:17 pm

rkawakami wrote:2652-D4U has 1.6Ghz CPU and 15" SXGA+. I have one

I have 2652-D4U and 2652-D3U, both SXGA+ (non-Flexview), and both originally 1.6GHz.

#100 Post by **underclocker** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 7:31 am

Can't wait to find out if that reball was superior, average or inferior...hoping for Superior!

You should send those guys the link for this thread - add some pressure for a great job.

#101 Post by **Harryc** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:36 am

Link sent.

#102 Post by **Harryc** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:06 am

Hello Harry,

We have completed and shipped your IBM. The IBM works great!! Thanks for the business!! We appreciate it very much!!
Thank You,

Dale Miedema

Customer Service

Superior Reball and Rework

" BGA Reballing, Rework and Repair"

www.superiorreball.com

USPS Priority mail

Label/Receipt Number: 9101 1288 8230 0455 9524 34

sarbin · #103 Post by **sarbin** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:15 am

#104 Post by **schen** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:28 pm

Harryc wrote:Hello Harry,

We have completed and shipped your IBM. The IBM works great!! Thanks for the business!! We appreciate it very much!!
Thank You,

Dale Miedema

Customer Service

Superior Reball and Rework

" BGA Reballing, Rework and Repair"

www.superiorreball.com

USPS Priority mail

Label/Receipt Number: 9101 1288 8230 0455 9524 34

Now it gets interesting!

#105 Post by **Harryc** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:40 pm

schen, your donation is about to become a working A31P, in all it's flexview glory.

. I'm excited about this machine. It is going to be a very nice addition to the forum project roster.

#106 Post by **Harryc** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:47 pm

If anyone has a set of A31P XP recovery CD's, please let me know.

ajkula66 · #107 Post by **ajkula66** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:55 pm

It will be on its way the next time I get to post office...likely on Thursday...

#108 Post by **schen** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 12:01 am

Harryc wrote:schen, your donation is about to become a working A31P, in all it's flexview glory. . I'm excited about this machine. It is going to be a very nice addition to the forum project roster.

So this is what this machine was suppose to become..... at least before I got sidetracked. At least it got to where it needed to be (after going from George to me) to be resurrected into a very functional high-end workstation. The precursor to the W700?

I hope I'm not too early to say; Thanks Harry!

#109 Post by **Harryc** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 3:10 am

Nah..the W700 doesn't have UXGA Flexview ... it's not even in the same family

Schen, thank-you.
George, thanks for the discs!!

proaudioguy · #110 Post by **proaudioguy** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:00 am

Harryc wrote:If anyone has a set of A31P XP recovery CD's, please let me know.

I can upload images if you have an FTP.

#111 Post by **Harryc** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 2:15 pm

The machine arrived. I don't have a lot of time at the moment to provide status, but initially I can't seem to find/enable Ethernet. I'll check CDC cards later. Otherwise it seems to run great. Am running PC-Doctor tests now ...

#112 Post by **Harryc** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:55 pm

PC-Doctor, 3 passes, all tests OK. We have a beautiful loaded A31P here gentlemen.

. The UXGA Flexview LCD is spectacular. I had forgotten that I told Schen not to include cards underneath, so I installed them from the donar machine. Next up, load the OS. Kudos to Superior Reball. $50 is quite a good deal for this service. The machine came back in the great cosmetic condition, everything works. Plan on 2 weeks from shipment to return. More to come.

#113 Post by **Harryc** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:56 pm

proaudioguy wrote:I can upload images if you have an FTP.

Proaudioguy, thanks a lot for the offer. Unfortunately I don't have access to a web server with that kind of capacity.

sparta.rising · #114 Post by **sparta.rising** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:17 pm

http://skydrive.live.com/

#115 Post by **Harryc** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:34 pm

That a nice feature that I didn't know existed , thanks. It says that the limit to upload individual files is 40MB though. We're talking about 650MB CD's/iso's here.

#116 Post by **rkawakami** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:46 pm

^^^ +1 I also did not know about this service, although when I just uploaded a file, it said that there is a 50MB/file limit. The URL is kinda nasty though....

http://cid-3f2c40b8c777ee50.skydrive.li ... tFuses.pdf

edit: Ah, never mind... I see that I can customize the URL... or maybe not

. Well, free storage but with a long, impossible to remember URL is the tradeoff I guess.

#117 Post by **Harryc** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:52 pm

It's seems useful for smaller files for sure...

sparta.rising · #118 Post by **sparta.rising** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:04 pm

Sorry, I'd never used it before, I just knew it had a 5GB total storage limit. It is fairly easy however to archive all of the ISO files and using winrar, split them into 50MB files. Depending on whether the uploader allows you to upload multiple files simultaneously, this could be easy.

ajkula66 · #119 Post by **ajkula66** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:14 pm

I've already burned the disks and will be mailing them tomorrow, so Harry will have them on Monday...

#120 Post by **Harryc** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:17 pm

Thanks George.

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