GregDavidson
Standard Member
I'm in Auckland, New Zealand and as of a couple of months ago am the happy owner of a TAG AV32R and 100x5R, which I'm totally happy with.
Well, until the other day - we had a bad week of storms and power outages in some parts of the city. On the same day I had my computer start to freeze up on boot (which turned out to be corrupt CMOS, but not until I was part the way through a time consuming software rebuild) and the AV32R completely forget all of it's user setup information.
I thought that was it but over the next two days the AV32R has begun to spontaneously restart (coming up with the self-test and forgetting all user settings). At one point the resets came think and fast and segments of the display were excessively bright. So I shut off the unit and sent it in for service (with the folk who used to sell TAG Mclaren in Auckland) while also starting to research on this forum. (I performed an eprom reset before sending it in, in case that was the problem).
I have found a long thread started by fraggle in 2004 who was having similar symptoms and eventually sent it to IAG for repair. Steve Sky suggested and IAG later confirmed that it was the "Siemens micro core locking up" - I think the repair ended up costing fraggle a minimal amount for parts and a reasonable amount for labour.
My challenge is I'm on the opposite side of the world from IAG and pretty reliant on local repair, I'd be surprised if was economic to ship back to IAG. Does anyone have any information or suggestion about what would be possible locally or if the repair performed by IAG for fraggle would be possible in NZ?
Greg
Well, until the other day - we had a bad week of storms and power outages in some parts of the city. On the same day I had my computer start to freeze up on boot (which turned out to be corrupt CMOS, but not until I was part the way through a time consuming software rebuild) and the AV32R completely forget all of it's user setup information.
I thought that was it but over the next two days the AV32R has begun to spontaneously restart (coming up with the self-test and forgetting all user settings). At one point the resets came think and fast and segments of the display were excessively bright. So I shut off the unit and sent it in for service (with the folk who used to sell TAG Mclaren in Auckland) while also starting to research on this forum. (I performed an eprom reset before sending it in, in case that was the problem).
I have found a long thread started by fraggle in 2004 who was having similar symptoms and eventually sent it to IAG for repair. Steve Sky suggested and IAG later confirmed that it was the "Siemens micro core locking up" - I think the repair ended up costing fraggle a minimal amount for parts and a reasonable amount for labour.
My challenge is I'm on the opposite side of the world from IAG and pretty reliant on local repair, I'd be surprised if was economic to ship back to IAG. Does anyone have any information or suggestion about what would be possible locally or if the repair performed by IAG for fraggle would be possible in NZ?
Greg