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ABIT going belly up?

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Glad to see this POS company going under - here are a few problems with my last Abit purchase:

-The included spring-loaded heatsink (socket 754) warped the board causing all kinds of RAM issues
-I kept getting post code errors that weren't listed in the manual
-All the drivers on the web site were out of date or not listed
-The floppy they included didn't have the correct SATA drivers
-Anyone with a similar problem was told on the Abit forums that either their power supply is too weak or their RAM was not compatible.
 
Originally posted by: pray4mojo
I've never heard anything good about Abit except their NF7 boards.
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You must be a noob then.

Thunderbird 1.4 GHz + Abit KT7-RAID is my all-time favorite combo.

Can I get a hell yeah?
 
Originally posted by: RaistlinZ
I used to love Abit back in the KT7-RAID days. Ah, the memories. :heart:
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Been running that board on a file server....its been great. The chipset fan has gone out though.
 
Abit boards used to to be great, then for awhile they really lost it & just recently they improved quite a bit again, but I guess it was too little & too late ... my younger daughter has an AXP 2100+ running in an Abit KT600 mb thats not bad & I still have a BE6-2 board
with a 1.4ghz P-3 (in a Powerleap adapter) running stable today.
 
Abit has always made ****** board IMO. I owned two, and had RMAed them both, and one of the ones I received on RMA died about a year after it came back.

Statistically irrelevant, but it impacts my buying decisions.
 
Big accounting scandal last yr. I'm surprised they didn't file for BK last yr when it occurred. I know their stock took a near death hit last yr on the news.
 
70+ Abit boards and only 3 of them were DOA. They all came from Mwave. first and last boards I ever bought from them. Every other one I have installed is still running strong.

I am on my 6th RMA'ed Epox 8RGA+. They all had capacitors that took a dump. No more Epox for me.

The Abit NF7-M and NF8 boards are fantastic and stable.
 
I remember my old BH6, was still running strong even when I sold it. Isn't abit also responsible for the fata1ity line of products? If so, I wonder if another manufacturer will pick him up.
 
BE6-II v2.0 blew a bunch of caps... I haven't looked back since.

Bump for BP6 tho, the original "pocket rocket" for dual celeron overclocking 🙂
 
i still use my abit nf7-s rev2 board. it runs solid.

so when abit goes down, are we gonna sell our abit boards doubled? 😛
 
Their video cards blew.... I bought one that had a component & hdmi out.... none of it worked, and they said they couldn't get it to work either. WHY would you release a product that doens't work?
 
Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
I've always been an Asus fan. Abit's boards just aren't what they used to be.
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but still, going bankrupt? i thought their fatal1ty brand or whatever was doing okay...they make decent boards though.
 
Ive had abit boards more than any other brand. but recently it has been Asus or DFI. Asus powers the intel stuff in my house. DFI for me...

still searching for the perfect board. dfi nf3 sucks
 
ahh yes the KT7. i have one of those lying around somewhere...bulging caps, constant crashing when temps got over 45C. quite a nice board.
 
Originally posted by: Naustica
Big accounting scandal last yr. I'm surprised they didn't file for BK last yr when it occurred. I know their stock took a near death hit last yr on the news.
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taiwan may not have much for bankruptcy law. the US has the biggest and most thorough bankruptcy law on the planet. while other jurisdictions are adding some bankruptcy protection, it isn't anywhere near like what the US has.


anyway, back in the day the only boards anyone used in any quantity seemed to be abit and asus. abit was for the overclocker while asus seemed like better quality. but since the original lanparty board dfi has become the overclocker's board, and abit has damn near fallen off the face of the earth. i guess having all your assets frozen by a court could do that to you.
 
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