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My 1.4 gig Tbird rig died today. The Abit KT7A raid it was running in blew some caps. A common problem with ABIT boards I gather. The board has a one year warranty. I ordered it on 3-29-02 it wasn`t shipped until 4-1-02 . I am asking the vendor to honor the warranty I think they should. I am bummed I realy liked that board. I had raid going on it too. Production will be down until I get a replacement.
 
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My home cruncher has gone unstable on me (sorry Shuxclams, I haven't abandoned your Q, just can't get SETI to run for more than 30 seconds anymore 🙁). Nothing money can't fix, but I might be idle for a couple weeks or so myself.
 
the kt7a was a good board for me
i hope it doesnt decide to crap out, since i gave it to my girlfriend as a hand-me-down.
 
It is amazing how the warranty expires just before the merchandise breaks down. I have had this happen to me on several occasions. 🙁

I have to put in a good word for Super Micro for they did replace a motherboard that was one week beyond the warranty period. Also a good word for NewEgg. 😉
 
Have you also noticed that the warranty period is stating to shrink? HD's used to all have a 3 year now they are down to 1. I wonder if all the mobo companies are going to follow that?
 
I bought the board from computer geeks it is their warranty. The normal ABIT warranty is three years. I could send this to ABIT with $25 and they would replace it. I could try replacing the caps myself. I searched the web for ( ABIT bad caps ) this is a big problem evidently. Other boards are affected to. I have a Soyo board with bad caps and a monitor with bad caps.
 
I had a Maxtor 4gb drive that died all of a week after it's 3 year warranty ran out.

Which totally sucked because, not only did i lose the drive I was using for my in-car MP3 computer, I couldn't get a replacement drive, which probably would have been somewhere along the lines of 20-30gb, which would have been a nice boost to the storage of the in-car computer 🙁

RIP KT7A, you will be long remembered 🙁 Now a moment of silence






































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I have a Seagate 4 GB SCSI drive here that had a 5 year warranty on it when I bought it in 1996.
It died once and I got a replacement, I think that was at about 4 years. It is still running strong, just as a little extra storage on one seti cruncher.

Lets consider length of warranty vs cost of hardware though:

I bought this HDD in 1996 for $1400+ and got a 5 year warranty. (had to have it for my web hosting company).

Now you can buy a 183 Gig SCSI drive for $1000 and get a 3 year warranty.

If someone had offered me that in 1996 I would have jumped on it big time.

Now you can also get a 250 GB 7200rpm UDMA drive for $411 and likely only get a 3 year with it.

All in all I think we are living in a much better time for hardware than we were ten years ago 😉
 
I recieved an RMA from the Geeks today they are honoring the warranty. Down side is it will take up to 14 days to get a replacement. I see they have Asus A7V133-C boards for $41.50 I might get one of these.
 
I am amazed at the alarming number of board failures due to this bad Cap situation.

An Asian firm was caught using a fake Capacitor Fluid and that is why all these Caps are failing. There should be International retribution for this Global fraud and blunder.
 
Abit's not the only board maker having problems. Most of thte top Taiwan companies are having problems, although they don't say much about it. There was an article on Register.com site (can't find link) about the supplier of the caps stealing the formula for the electrolite which was a fake formula, and was producing bad caps.
 
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