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Im ****ed at ABIT ! Continuing ABIT kx7-333R woes
This is the replacement board I got after my orig which worked
fantastic for 8 months or so completely melted down. I got this refurb as a replacement wich worked but had a glitch where it hung all the time using the highpoint controllers. I tried everything finally settling on using the old via drivers with some older highpoint drivers whch seemed to work OK. Actually I just diasbled the highpoint controller and used the first controller and relegated the board to a second PC system after I bought an ASUS nforce for my main PC. Spent months and months tearing my hair out trying to fix the orig when it went bad and then trying to work out the glitch in the replacement. I finally just say what the heck Im living with it as is in second PC for a few months and today i turn the stupid thing on trying to finalize setting it up after putting a wireless networking card in it - ITS DEAD ! The damn motherboard dies after 5 months of virtually no use on it !!!!!!!! Ive taken it out of the case to make sure no shorts. Ive swapped the video card out - it works fine in my other system. Swapped the CPU from this system to the abit - nothing. Swapped memory out. Everything works except the motherboard. No video at all. Cleared the CMOS. Now I get to possibly spend another $20 sending it back after spending the same amount to get this board. Im thinking of smashing this board to bits and buying some other refurb. Someone is posting that ABIT says theyll only give you ONE replacement. That means your board is defective. They give you another defective board - tough luck. Thats it. I guess Ill find out if i ask for an RMA. |
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On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 04:37:57 GMT, "
wrote: This is the replacement board I got after my orig which worked fantastic for 8 months or so completely melted down. So we assume it's the same make/model? What model? I got this refurb as a replacement wich worked but had a glitch where it hung all the time using the highpoint controllers. I tried everything finally settling on using the old via drivers with some older highpoint drivers whch seemed to work OK. Actually I just diasbled the highpoint controller and used the first controller and relegated the board to a second PC system after I bought an ASUS nforce for my main PC. Hmm. Don't know what troubleshooting you tried, but probably related to the PCI bus. Suppose it's irrelevant now. Spent months and months tearing my hair out trying to fix the orig when it went bad and then trying to work out the glitch in the replacement. I finally just say what the heck Im living with it as is in second PC for a few months and today i turn the stupid thing on trying to finalize setting it up after putting a wireless networking card in it - ITS DEAD ! Is it possible the network card killed it? We can assume you tried the traditional troubleshooting, including clearing CMOS and checking wiring and cards in case anything was disturbed? Is it possible you installed the card while the power was on (I mean, standby, soft-off)? The damn motherboard dies after 5 months of virtually no use on it !!!!!!!! Ive taken it out of the case to make sure no shorts. Ive swapped the video card out - it works fine in my other system. Swapped the CPU from this system to the abit - nothing. Swapped memory out. Everything works except the motherboard. No video at all. Cleared the CMOS. That answers my above question about the CMOS, but have you tried another power supply, known good/adequate? Now I get to possibly spend another $20 sending it back after spending the same amount to get this board. Im thinking of smashing this board to bits and buying some other refurb. Someone is posting that ABIT says theyll only give you ONE replacement. That means your board is defective. They give you another defective board - tough luck. Thats it. I guess Ill find out if i ask for an RMA. Some people swear by Abit but I usually stick with Asus or MSI as second choice. You might visit http://www.amdmb.com , their forums, and see if anyone has figured out what's going wrong with those boards, if it is just a defective board or poor design. |
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On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 05:46:40 GMT, kony wrote:
Some people swear by Abit but I usually stick with Asus or MSI as second choice. This is the same one Ive posted numerous times about. Luckily I have my NFORCE ASUS now which is rock solid except for that weird stuttering problem with sound which went away when I took the Promise controller PCI card out and used only the built in controllers. . Yeah there are ASUS camps and ABIT camps. You go to each one and people in there swear they had 20 ABITS in a row that blew up and vice versa and thatll never use that brand because of that. Ive had bad experiences with both the last few years. The mainthing about ABIT though -a plus they have very responsive and fast RMA service vs. ASUS but then theres that post recently about only accepting ONE RMA per board. I can see their point in some cases since Ive seen some posts where people claim they got 4-5 boards in a row that were massively defective right out of the box. That seems really unlikely - more user error than hardware. On the otherhand - ASUS gave me a kind of curt note saying this was the LAST RMA they would give on my old kt133a ASUS board I had to RMA after a year or so when it went flakey. Thats what turned me off ASUS so I went with ABIT. I mean that was the first ASUS board Id ever RMAd - ever. The thing about ABIT is though - they were the primary focus of the bad cap stories. Their quality control doesnt seem as good though sure the ASUS haters have claimed some dubious horror stories with ASUS too - I havent heard as many with ASUS. Like the one where one guy claimed he worked at shop RMAd some boards and got back repaired ones with messy solders on them and these caps and things hanging off of wires that were obviously tacked on to the boards in amateur fashion. Ive never seen that on a board. You might visit http://www.amdmb.com , their forums, and see if anyone has figured out what's going wrong with those boards, if it is just a defective board or poor design. This one is defintely dead. No video whatsoever after testing all the other components - Monitor, CPU, videocard, PS, etc work fine on my main system parts. I jsut spent hours taking everything apart on my main system to swap parts. Nope - its OK. Powers up but no video at all. Im going try clearing the CMOS several more times. I remember my neighbors replacement board was like that. Nothing until I cleared the CMOS numerous times and then suddenly it started working. Occaisonally its still a bit cranky and does it once in a great while. This board however NEVER needed that but who knows. |
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