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Dear all

 

We have an old confocal  Leica 4D  (1996) microscope whose Motorola workstation is not running any more:  we suspect that the MVME 167 -34B board is broken  but I do not have the technical possibility to check it out.

Nobody in Italy  as far as we know is able to assist us in order to get the workstation back to work. 

is there anybody that my give us any hint? 

Is there anybody that would sell us a board  even if from a dismissed workstation?

 

Please please this is VITAL for my research and I will appreciate any feedback,

Best

 

S. Spiga

Dept of Animal Biology & Ecology

University of Cagliari

Italy

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Sylvie Le Guyader-2 Sylvie Le Guyader-2
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Dear Mimmo

 

Our Leica Confocal CLSM has had the same problem: the motherboard gave up and there is no replacing it and no solution from Leica.

 

Good luck!

 

Med vänlig hälsning / Best regards

 

Sylvie

 

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Dept of Biosciences and Nutrition

Karolinska Institutet

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Dear all

 

We have an old confocal  Leica 4D  (1996) microscope whose Motorola workstation is not running any more:  we suspect that the MVME 167 -34B board is broken  but I do not have the technical possibility to check it out.

Nobody in Italy  as far as we know is able to assist us in order to get the workstation back to work. 

is there anybody that my give us any hint? 

Is there anybody that would sell us a board  even if from a dismissed workstation?

 

Please please this is VITAL for my research and I will appreciate any feedback,

Best

 

S. Spiga

Dept of Animal Biology & Ecology

University of Cagliari

Italy

[hidden email]

John Gibas John Gibas
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Mimmo
 
How about some specs?
Contact me off-line.
 
John

John J Gibas
Cell 410-507-4952

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Dear all

 

We have an old confocal  Leica 4D  (1996) microscope whose Motorola workstation is not running any more:  we suspect that the MVME 167 -34B board is broken  but I do not have the technical possibility to check it out.

Nobody in Italy  as far as we know is able to assist us in order to get the workstation back to work. 

is there anybody that my give us any hint? 

Is there anybody that would sell us a board  even if from a dismissed workstation?

 

Please please this is VITAL for my research and I will appreciate any feedback,

Best

 

S. Spiga

Dept of Animal Biology & Ecology

University of Cagliari

Italy

[hidden email]


Jacqueline Ross Jacqueline Ross
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Hi Mimmo,
 
Our TCS 4D also failed last year. We tried everything and couldn't fix it and nor could Leica. I think it was also the MVME board so our old one wouldn't be any use to you. Two other 4D systems of about the same age in New Zealand also failed about 1-2 years prior to ours and none could be recusitated. It was very sad because it was such a reliable system!
 
Leica did try a "new" board in one of the other failed NZ systems and it ran for 3 days until they shut it down. Then it wouldn't boot up again. We tried that board in ours but with no success. My understanding is that it was due to one component on the board failing. If I find out more from our Leica engineer, I'll let you know but I'm afraid that you may be as unlucky as us with regard to this.
 
Kind regards,
 
Jacqui
 

Jacqueline Ross

Biomedical Imaging Microscopist
Biomedical Imaging Research Unit 
School of Medical Sciences 
Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences
The University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND

Tel: 64 9 373 7599 Ext 87438
Fax: 64 9 373 7484

http://www.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz/sms/biru/

 


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Dear all

 

We have an old confocal  Leica 4D  (1996) microscope whose Motorola workstation is not running any more:  we suspect that the MVME 167 -34B board is broken  but I do not have the technical possibility to check it out.

Nobody in Italy  as far as we know is able to assist us in order to get the workstation back to work. 

is there anybody that my give us any hint? 

Is there anybody that would sell us a board  even if from a dismissed workstation?

 

Please please this is VITAL for my research and I will appreciate any feedback,

Best

 

S. Spiga

Dept of Animal Biology & Ecology

University of Cagliari

Italy

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Dear All,

Thanks so much  to those that took some time to answer …  so far no luck with my confocal.

I have one more question for you:  is there anyone that would kindly receive my  motherboard  (MVME 167 -34B), that one that  I suppose is dead, and test it out for me on his/her computer?  This should be a BUS VME operative system OS9  !!!

 

Does anyone know any other simplest way to let me know if is this is my problem?  The market sells  this board at a lot of money but before paying for it I would like to be sure that this  is it. 

Best, Mimmo

 

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Dear all

 

We have an old confocal  Leica 4D  (1996) microscope whose Motorola workstation is not running any more:  we suspect that the MVME 167 -34B board is broken  but I do not have the technical possibility to check it out.

Nobody in Italy  as far as we know is able to assist us in order to get the workstation back to work. 

is there anybody that my give us any hint? 

Is there anybody that would sell us a board  even if from a dismissed workstation?

 

Please please this is VITAL for my research and I will appreciate any feedback,

Best

 

S. Spiga

Dept of Animal Biology & Ecology

University of Cagliari

Italy

[hidden email]