David, at 16:24 on Nov 25 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

db>> How often does one find onesself doing this?  Quite often with the M5
db>> and M7F, but I haven't had to do it once with the M34F.

BG> The point is that it should be NEVER.

db> As I said, I have *not* had to do this at *all* with the M34F (ie., NEVER).  
db> :-)

Not yet, at least.  Mind you, they've not been around for long...  :)

BG> If they'd manufactured their product properly in the first place, you
BG> wouldn't need a new motherboard (as in the series 3 abortions, for which
BG> Netcomm gouged the public horribly).

db> The Series 3 was an abortion, yes;  but the M34F is Series 5, not Series 3.

And what about the vast number of M34Fs in the field with the buggy 04BC
RC288dpi datapump?  I truly hope yours is the much better 05BA revision.

BG> And you must be lucky with your M34F, as there's a whole swag of these in
BG> the field with buggy datapumps, fixable only by a complete chipset
BG> replacement.

db> It's a 1995 ROM, and I never run with the manufacturer's defaults;  plain 
db> 'n' simple.  Once you hit on the "acceptable balance" for
a configuration 
db> (be it modem's NVR, CONFIG.SYS for DOS or whatever), then everything should 
db> be smooth sailing from there on and so far that's been the case with me.

Sure, but that still doesn't tell me what the revision of your chipset is. 
Dunno how you'd find out either - maybe an ATI3 or something like that? 
The point is, if you DO have the 04BA, you'd probably be advised to do
something about it ASAP, lest Netcomm do their usual trick of making
customers pay $400-odd for a replacement mainboard after 12 months (a la
the Series 3).

BG>> After all, they have to pay for their marble staircase somehow.  :)

db>> :-)

BG> If it wasn't so true, it'd be quite funny...

db> But it's a *really* *nice* looking staircase, too!  :-)

Really?  I've never seen it.  And I'm not bloody likely to, either.  :)

Regards, Bill

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