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Motherboard problems - abit and Asus
Im sending one back next week - its the the second RMA board in a row
to ABIT. The funny thing is I got a RMA replacement for a neighbors ABIT 333 board too since his keyboard port went out. Small problem. Got a nice looking replacement a few days ago but after putting it together had the classic - wont post 80% of the time and no video much of the time when it did get past that and totally erratic behavior. Thought this was yet another castastrophic mess. I took apart and tested anything I could. Then I noticed when I cleared the cmos , the jumper was totally loose only intermittent contact. In fact when I finally got it running it and touched it - it would cause it to go nuts. I tightened the jumper connects with a safetpin and then it worked perfectly fine. What the heck is going on with the quality control ? They should have caught that a mile away that something was wrong with the board though it turned out to be a small thing. My Asus Nforce2 Deluxe board seems perfectly fine - the refurb. It was only $69 - $79 though now at Newegg - seems like an awesome board - has everything - sata/raid, two lan connections, sound 5.1 , etc etc Even has a connection for a modem though Im not sure if its built in to all boards or not. Theres just a blurb on it. One big pain in the ass - wont boot up my old drives with Win XP pro on them even in safe mode. Have to install from scratch. In fact its a bit erratic even reading the disks as non-boot drives though I have it working now and its stable. When I go into safemode it blue screens all the time and hangs. |
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I've bought 2 Abit boards over the years. Both have has to be RMA'd. And,I
switched to Epox. Never again,even though the features of Abit are tempting at times.Dawg Im sending one back next week - its the the second RMA board in a row to ABIT. The funny thing is I got a RMA replacement for a neighbors ABIT 333 board too since his keyboard port went out. Small problem. Got a nice looking replacement a few days ago but after putting it together had the classic - wont post 80% of the time and no video much of the time when it did get past that and totally erratic behavior. |
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