- Joined
- Sep 5, 2002
- Location
- The Land of SIN
When a vendor screws up in your favor, what should you do?
Background:
While working on my briefcase mod that houses a short ATX board (305x220mm), full size cards, two 5.25 drives and two 3.5 as well as water cooling gear (custom built heater-core), and a LCD screen in the lid, I dropped a [expletive deleted] screw into the case while trying to affix the clear acrylic top.
This wayward screw hit the power section (next to the CPU) of the motherboard and fried the board and the CPU.
R.I.P. Soltek P4X400 based SL85ERV and an Intel P4 1.6a Retail.
Well shoot, I killed it, so I do the honest thing, and instead of trying to RMA the broken stuff (which is still under warranty) I order the cheapest P4 DDR board I can get (amazingly a P4X400 based SL85ERV2-L), and scrounge up another low-end P4 pull (1.8a).
The new board I ordered shows up today and it's an Asus A7N8X Deluxe-UAY, this board sells for more then twice the price of the Soltek board, and has three times the features.
Question:
Should I return this board to the vendor?
Should I keep this board?
Paul.
Background:
While working on my briefcase mod that houses a short ATX board (305x220mm), full size cards, two 5.25 drives and two 3.5 as well as water cooling gear (custom built heater-core), and a LCD screen in the lid, I dropped a [expletive deleted] screw into the case while trying to affix the clear acrylic top.
This wayward screw hit the power section (next to the CPU) of the motherboard and fried the board and the CPU.
R.I.P. Soltek P4X400 based SL85ERV and an Intel P4 1.6a Retail.
Well shoot, I killed it, so I do the honest thing, and instead of trying to RMA the broken stuff (which is still under warranty) I order the cheapest P4 DDR board I can get (amazingly a P4X400 based SL85ERV2-L), and scrounge up another low-end P4 pull (1.8a).
The new board I ordered shows up today and it's an Asus A7N8X Deluxe-UAY, this board sells for more then twice the price of the Soltek board, and has three times the features.
Question:
Should I return this board to the vendor?
Should I keep this board?
Paul.