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I like Intel's motherboards.
They're good quality with a low RMA rate. They're not too expensive. They're stable.
My work started carrying Intel branded boards.
Specifically, the Intel "Easton" motherboard.
This week was the first week we had the board and this week was a doozy!
It seems that some people that would not oridinarily step foot in my place of work, have now done so attracted by the Intel branding of a motherboard.
No other brand have I seen such a following of stupidity. Your typical Anandtech, Ars or OCP reader would opt for an Asus or MSI product for sure, but not the utter newbie.
One guy came in Wednesday after calling complaining that the board would not post.
Upon inspection of the inside of the PC, I noticed the fan on the CPU, but the CPU was not in the socket! He had merely placed the CPU on top of the socket and snapped the fan on top of that. The spring clip's tension that was holding the fan down was so tight that I had to bust out pliers to get it off.
I gave him the evil eye and said, "It's not going to post if the CPU is not in the socket."
He said, "Nobody told me about that!"
Of course, we sort of take for granted that most people know that the interface between the CPU and motherboard is a bit more than osmosis. So I respond, "I can't imagine what you thought this little lever was for."
Today, a guy came in with his PC complaining that it would not post. Again, it was an Intel Easton board.
The guy at the counter was too busy to look at the whole PC, but handed the customer a screwdriver and told him to pull the board since that is all he bought from us.
He pulled the board out of the case and handed it to the counter dude. It was then passed to on me. "It doesn't boot. Can you check it?"
I take the board and put it on the test bench. It fired right up. I asked the counter guy, "No POST or no boot?"
"No post."
"Hmm...." I walk up to the counter and take a look at the case for signs of the not-so-obvious. Voltage set to 220? Broken wire on the power switch? I notice that there are no stand offs in the case. For the life of me, I refuse to believe that he mounted this board without the stand offs, but I'm compelled to ask, "Where are all of your stand offs?"
"Stand off? What's a stand off?"
They're good quality with a low RMA rate. They're not too expensive. They're stable.
My work started carrying Intel branded boards.
Specifically, the Intel "Easton" motherboard.
This week was the first week we had the board and this week was a doozy!
It seems that some people that would not oridinarily step foot in my place of work, have now done so attracted by the Intel branding of a motherboard.
No other brand have I seen such a following of stupidity. Your typical Anandtech, Ars or OCP reader would opt for an Asus or MSI product for sure, but not the utter newbie.
One guy came in Wednesday after calling complaining that the board would not post.
Upon inspection of the inside of the PC, I noticed the fan on the CPU, but the CPU was not in the socket! He had merely placed the CPU on top of the socket and snapped the fan on top of that. The spring clip's tension that was holding the fan down was so tight that I had to bust out pliers to get it off.
I gave him the evil eye and said, "It's not going to post if the CPU is not in the socket."
He said, "Nobody told me about that!"
Of course, we sort of take for granted that most people know that the interface between the CPU and motherboard is a bit more than osmosis. So I respond, "I can't imagine what you thought this little lever was for."
Today, a guy came in with his PC complaining that it would not post. Again, it was an Intel Easton board.
The guy at the counter was too busy to look at the whole PC, but handed the customer a screwdriver and told him to pull the board since that is all he bought from us.
He pulled the board out of the case and handed it to the counter dude. It was then passed to on me. "It doesn't boot. Can you check it?"
I take the board and put it on the test bench. It fired right up. I asked the counter guy, "No POST or no boot?"
"No post."
"Hmm...." I walk up to the counter and take a look at the case for signs of the not-so-obvious. Voltage set to 220? Broken wire on the power switch? I notice that there are no stand offs in the case. For the life of me, I refuse to believe that he mounted this board without the stand offs, but I'm compelled to ask, "Where are all of your stand offs?"
"Stand off? What's a stand off?"
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