CompuServe Thread

Hi all, I was shopping for a new computer two months ago and had to make the decision of buy a mac – most of my costumers use MACS – or what I really wanted a A4000/40. All the hype about the UU Emplant, helped in my decision to buy the Amiga. So, I ordered the 4000 with a 120 Meg HD, and a retina board with 2 meg of ram. – should have got the 4 meg version ! – At the same time I ordered a Deluxe Emplant board and a 120 Meg SCSI HD for the MAC side. I received the Amiga the same day and the Retina board one week later but the Dealer only called yesterday – two months later – to let me know the Emplant was in the store. When I went to the store after work they were trying to install a Emplant to use as a demonstrator. They had installed the MAC ROM chips and were trying to copy them to RAM to test the board. When they run the software to copy the ROMS the file in RAM has 0 bits. We ran the diagnostic program and everything checks out until it gets to the AUTOBOOT SOCKET that is marked as BAD. There is NO CHIP IN THIS SOCKET. So we opened the box containing my Emplant and it also has no chip in the AUTOBOOT socket as the the DOCS are not clear as to whether there should be a chip installed in this socket can anyone clarify this? Now the FLAME. When looking at the dealers board I noted the it had been hand soldered, but when I looked at my board it had been WAVE soldered using the water based method. THE BOARD HAD NOT BEEN WASHED, and was already starting to corrode. I gave the board back to the dealer and asked him to get me another one. Can I get some feedback from other Emplant users as to whether this shoddy quality control on UU'S part is typical of UU or just a fluke. Thanks Edson