help: i burned my xp 1900 oem (where to RMA ?)

[slinetz]

and i want to RMA the cpu but can't find where to fill out RMA request (Fry's don't take back the processor)

 

[mechBgon]

If you burned it, then I don't think you have valid grounds for an RMA. At any rate, with OEM processors, the vendor is the one providing the warranty, if any. If it were a retail CPU then AMD would be providing the warranty, but not with OEM.

 

[Tab]

I assume everyone here has morales but in anycase. You can usally wipe the burn marks off on the CPU. Whomever you send it back to would have to look at it through a microscope to see if you really did burn it.

 

[Duvie]

How did you burn it???

Chip the core installing HSF???

Incorrect installation of HSF??? IE no thermal paste or good contact with core....

Fan either stopped working or wasn't connected???

Overclocked too high and it got too high?? Ie vcore adjusted too high...

Something else fried it???

 

[SFang]

Try another Fry's.

BTW, some details on how you burned it will always get ppl excited. Duvie's slowly dying Northwood wasn't so intense as I had expected.

 

[THUGSROOK]

Originally posted by: SFang
BTW, Duvie's slowly dying Northwood wasn't so intense as I had expected.

oh, he makes it sound like nothing now ~ but you shoulda seen the thread back in march when it was happening

 

[kadajawi]

here's a small list of CPUs which got recognized as damaged by their owner. So if yours look like that one... save the shipping costs and simply buy a new one.
DAU-Alarm The website is in German, but it should be easy to understand (except the comments which are quite funny ). Prozessoren means CPUs, Arbeitsspeicher=RAM. Laufwerke=Drives. Transport & Verpackungen=Transport (d'oh) and packings. Its a cool gallery, so if you want to see defect hardware (mostly because of the users)...

 

[MrHans]

Great Pix on that site, kadajawi! Nice link.

 

[Jeff7181]

Those were some entertaining pictures =) Almost inspires me to fire up my old Duron 700 in a mainboard that doesn't work and see how much smoke I can make. =)