(resolved)Abit nightmare

[NCtramp]

I bought an Abit IC7-G in sept 2003 to make a rig for my brother for Xmas

the mobo would not bootup.

I rma'ed it to Abit.

rma mobo would not bootup.

rquest 2nd rma

received someboy elses shipment an NF7
it took 10 days on the phone with abit to straighten that out

reurned the NF7 to abit with return label

2nd rma mobo had "cpu not workable"

requested 3rd rma

and received somebody elses Video card today
and NO IC7-G.

I wrong shipment ok...mistake made..but 2x??

this is plain stupidity...

well my brother has his case with componets BUT NO motherboard:((((

has any body else ever have an experience like this one???

would like to hear it if...so:)


so I dont feel so alone:)

[sandman001]

OH YES.

Bought NF7-S in July. Worked fine for about 2 months, then just died. So, I send it back to ABIT in late August. First they couldn't find my payment, now they keep telling me they are working on it......IT"S BEEN FOUR MONTHS.

I'm not touching anything else ABIT. Ever.

[Silversinksam]

I'll help you both after Jan 1st get this sorted out.

[GunSlinger21]

SSS knows the world ends on Jan 1 becuase of the invading kittys from everybodys pillows yes thats right your pillows are filled with kitty "kats" with laser beam eyes and machine gun paws be scared very scared -.-

[NCtramp]

Now I dont feel so alone any more:)


SSS thanks:)

[sandman001]

Lol, and thanks Sam.

[Aktunka]

Hehe, it is this sort of thing that makes me wonder why I bought another Abit board when I did. I realize that they have a pretty good reputation, but my personal experience with them is like 3 out of the 4 abit boards I have bought have had problems, the current one no exception. I am gonna have to stab myself in the eye if I buy another abit board knowing full well that my luck with them is horrid.

[sandman001]

I''ve moved to ASUS, and I hope it works better.

[linlibj]

I also had bad experience with Abit BH7. The first one worked about 2 month then HS on north bridge fell off. RMAed it, got second one. It won't boot. RMAed again, now I have my third board. Well at least the third one is working. But it cost me two trips to post office, and $16 for shipping, not to mention my computer down time.

[neop]

i guess i'm lucky
there's a abit distributor over here, jus an hr distance away, always 1 to 1 xchange, changed my nf7s 2 times so far

[gruvin2]

I just got my MAX3 up and running ....Now you got me all scared :(

[mata2974]

No dont feel bad, here is what I had to go through, even though I like their MBs, I think the whole RMA department should be fired.....
follow here (http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?threadid=24483)

[Aktunka]

Originally posted by linlibj
I also had bad experience with Abit BH7. The first one worked about 2 month then HS on north bridge fell off. RMAed it, got second one. It won't boot. RMAed again, now I have my third board. Well at least the third one is working. But it cost me two trips to post office, and $16 for shipping, not to mention my computer down time.

Hehe my Northbridge heatsink fell off too one day. As a stopgap measure I used double stick thermal tape and stuck a tweakmonster BGA ramsink right on the northbridge die. Worked just as well as the original did lol. Anyhow, I didn't want to RMA it because I was lazy and stuff. Finally got around to replacing the tubing in my SC system and decided to fix the NB heatsink at the same time. All it took to fix it was to solder the retaining clip back into the mobo, and for good measure I resoldered the one that was still on anyhow hehe.

[NCtramp]

Originally posted by mata2974
No dont feel bad, here is what I had to go through, even though I like their MBs, I think the whole RMA department should be fired.....
follow here (http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?threadid=24483)


hahahaha (nctemper it's me)

that's when my problems began I had gotten shutters mobo by mistakes and i'm still waiting for something...I can boot up:) besides Abit's ass:)

http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?threadid=24483

[solo]

i <3 the abit RMA department
cause they are only 5 minutes away from my house, and i can drive down there and harass them

when you get the CPU nonworkable thing, you should be able to boot up, you get that messagse everytime you take the cpu out of the soket and put it back in

abit is great, but their voltage regulations need to be more stringent

[NCtramp]

solo

when you get the CPU nonworkable thing, you should be able to boot up, you get that messagse everytime you take the cpu out of the soket and put it back in


I get the "cpu unworkable" error at every bootup.

[wannaoc]

Ahhh, this is why I let newegg take care of my rma's. I hope it all turns out for the best but look at it this way: If you return it enough you might end up getting someone elses item thats worth more than your motherboard. ;)

[NCtramp]

WOW

after suffering in pain for 3 months with Abit RMA i received yesterday

a spanking brand new IC7-MAX3 from ABit

hehe and it's boots up too:)


now i hope it stays that way:)

[gruvin2]

glad to hear the good news NCtramp. I Hope it OC's well for you too :)

[9mmCensor]

Is your name Murphy?

That sucks that all that happened, good luck with the new board, hopefully i dont die.

[Aktunka]

Originally posted by 9mmCensor
hopefully i dont die.

I hope you don't die either, 9mmcensor!

[NCtramp]

IC7-Max3 boots up

But I'm going to sell it:)

moving on to Asus..for a while:)

nctramp