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It was dead, now it ain't, it's better, but at a cost of $105! (modified 0 times) zyxw Profile | Email Ok, So I got a V4B I-Opener and stupidly soldered a shunt across R302, this as my desoldering and soldering weren't up to snuff. Well, it died. Really dead, no green light at power on (not even a blink) toasted I-Opener My choices appeared to be to buy a new one, or to try to find some place to fix it. My cost would be about $199 + sales tax to replace it. I found w i z z t r o n i c s . c o m (spaces to avoid problems with censoring) was offering a $105 dead I-Opener revival deal. Well, it took a while, but my deceased I-Opener is no longer dead. It also has mods installed to set by dip switch fsb and multiplier (as well as a newer higher current R303 current limiting resistor). My hats off to those who solder this stuff easily, and it is likely a great mark against me that I have failed and screwed up my I-Opener totally. However the folks above claim to have serviced 500 I-Openers and to have had only 1 non-revivable. I am not affiliated other than as someone who used the service with the above. However if you have a toasted I-Opener, and are unable to get it fixed locally or via your own effort at least this may offer a possible solution. My K6-3+ will hopefully live quite happily. 01-08-2001 18:47:47

What was that link... typed it in.without and nothing? (modified 0 times) Johnson Profile can't find that www.izz... .c o m....you know... but didn't work...are you sure that's correct spelling? 01-09-2001 01:16:04

RE:It was dead, now it ain't, it's better, but at a cost of $105! (modified 0 times) info Profile http://www . w i z z t r o n i c s . c o m/ 01-09-2001 04:14:25

RE:It was dead, now it ain't, it's better, but at a cost of $105! (modified 0 times) info Profile http://www . w i z z t r o n i c s . c o m/ 01-09-2001 04:15:20

RE:It was dead, now it ain't, it's better, but at a cost of $105! (modified 0 times) info Profile http://www.###########.com/ 01-09-2001 04:15:42

RE:It was dead, now it ain't, it's better, but at a cost of $105! (modified 0 times) Programmer Profile Turbo3: If you ever get tired of playing with that board I sent you, you GOTTA send it to these guys.. :) think they'll be able to fix it???/ 01-11-2001 14:48:17

RE:It was dead, now it ain't, it's better, but at a cost of $105! (modified 0 times) Turbo3 Profile It would be a REAL challenge for them. Do they guarantee a working iopener for $105? As you can tell from my posts I am slowly working my way through the board. 01-11-2001 17:19:55

RE:It was dead, now it ain't, it's better, but at a cost of $105! (modified 0 times) zyxw Profile | Email Hi, Well if this helps, I'm replying from my previously dead I-Opener which is now running W2K quite happily at a 100Mhz FSB with a multiplier of 3 (I will try higher later, but for now I'm just happy to get this gosh darned thing up). Now I have 3 of these darned wireless acer warp packages (total of 6) to fiddle with, if I can get 300-400Mhz 256KB cached 256MB I-Openers running wirelessly through my home... well the words which describe it belong on another more explicit site... but it'll be almost as good I second the idea of sending the board, Steve at W I Z Z T R O N I C S made a point of telling me they did in fact solder 288 pin SMT parts... heck if they fix it I hope they take before and after photo's... also be sure to ask em to wire out a floppy connector 01-12-2001 11:35:01

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