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Abit IC7-G DOA?

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Grit

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I booted up my new IC7-G only to find it locks up at bootup.

I get the Main Processor: "Intel (blah blah blah)" line, and the
"Memory Testing: 542488" line, and two lines at the bottom... "Press DEL to enter SETUP" and the bios date/version line.

The Num Lock on the keyboard works when i toggle the key. Pressing DEL does nothing. I re-seated the CPU, tried new RAM, and cleared the CMOS. No change in status.

The CPU worked 30 minutes ago on a nice, stable ASUS board. Please, someone tell me how to fix this. This is the THIRD board I've gotten from Abit that's been DOA. I swore 'em off when it took them over 4 months to RMA a IT-7 II max 2 that was also DOA. PLEASE PLEASE tell me Abit didn't screw me again. PLEASE!
 
Wish I could help you out dude.Sounds like you had some bad luck with Abit.Here is a bump hoping someone might help you out.
 
I RMA'ed the board via Newegg. Hopefully, that'll work out better than Abit did last time. 🙂

I'll post a follow-up in a few days.
 
I think sending it back to newegg was a good idea than Abit.Hopefully it won't take long.I have had 2 Abits IT7 Max2 V2 and the one I am running now,BH7.Never had a problem with any of them.
 
I hope I dont... I had TONS of luck with Abit, up to and including the TH7-II RAID.

I tried the IT7-MAX2 Ver 2, and FLOP! That board had timeout errors on the Promise RAID controller & crackling sound issues. I RMAed the board to Abit, and they promply sent me back an IT7-MAX2 (not a Revision 2, the original). The short version is that Abit repeated that same mistake 3 more times (wrong board) until I actually had to get a lawyer involved. They finally shipped the CORRECT board. I sold it without ever trying it.

I'da gone with another Asus board, but their i875 board doesn't use Intel's gigabit LAN and has had some problems with the Promose raid controller. At this point, I'm thinking Intel motherboards sound great. 🙂

The crap thing is, i looked on the Abit forums today (because of the issue I'm having now) and saw several recent posts from customers having the SAME problems I had with my IT7-MAX2 Revision 2 (and that was 6 months ago).

I sent requests to Anandtech and HardOCP to start including customer service / reliability in the reviews, but no luck.

StorageReview.com started to make a database of hard drives where users could state how long they've had a particular drive or how long they had it until it died. Might be nice to see someone do that with motherboards.
 
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