- Jan 14, 2007
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Hey folks, hoping with the metric ton of collective knowledge on these forums that you all might be able to help me with something.
To keep it short and sweet, I have someone who bought a motherboard from me on ebay and I believe is trying to scam me by filing a claim with ebay stating that it didn't work within 1 hour of it being delivered to his mailbox.
Without going into the crazy details I have been trying to get information from the buyer to help troubleshoot the issue, if in fact something is wrong, but he refuses to provide details such as exact make/models (which is super suspect) beyond vague mentions of having "thousands of dollars worth of hardware" that he tested it with.
All of that said, I am attempting to gather some more info about one of his claims
Specifically, he says that all of the status and diagnostic indicators on the board point to everything being just fine, but that the board will still not boot or show any kind of video signal. His supposition is that the board is so damaged that it can't even properly give status indication.
Now, for my part in all this, I know for certain the board was working fine before sending it to him as I booted, got into the BIOS ran some memtest and similar diagnostics before stripping it down and sending it to him. I saw 0 indications of anything wrong with the board.
I didn't personally own this board or use it for any extended period of time, so i am willing to concede that it is POSSIBLE that something is wrong that I either didn't catch or something happened in transit, but there are many other aspects of his claim which are also suspect.
With all that in mind, I'd like to answer the following question. Has anyone heard of/seen a situation with this or any motherboard where the status indicators all seemed to indicate everything was fine, but the board would not boot/POST or anything else?
Any insights you folks can provide would be greatly appreciated and the more info the better as I am trying to build a case for how this guy is clearly trying to scam me and rip me off.
Thanks!
To keep it short and sweet, I have someone who bought a motherboard from me on ebay and I believe is trying to scam me by filing a claim with ebay stating that it didn't work within 1 hour of it being delivered to his mailbox.
Without going into the crazy details I have been trying to get information from the buyer to help troubleshoot the issue, if in fact something is wrong, but he refuses to provide details such as exact make/models (which is super suspect) beyond vague mentions of having "thousands of dollars worth of hardware" that he tested it with.
All of that said, I am attempting to gather some more info about one of his claims
Specifically, he says that all of the status and diagnostic indicators on the board point to everything being just fine, but that the board will still not boot or show any kind of video signal. His supposition is that the board is so damaged that it can't even properly give status indication.
Now, for my part in all this, I know for certain the board was working fine before sending it to him as I booted, got into the BIOS ran some memtest and similar diagnostics before stripping it down and sending it to him. I saw 0 indications of anything wrong with the board.
I didn't personally own this board or use it for any extended period of time, so i am willing to concede that it is POSSIBLE that something is wrong that I either didn't catch or something happened in transit, but there are many other aspects of his claim which are also suspect.
With all that in mind, I'd like to answer the following question. Has anyone heard of/seen a situation with this or any motherboard where the status indicators all seemed to indicate everything was fine, but the board would not boot/POST or anything else?
Any insights you folks can provide would be greatly appreciated and the more info the better as I am trying to build a case for how this guy is clearly trying to scam me and rip me off.
Thanks!