Motherboard problems

[Farvacola]

It seems to me that everyone expects that when they buy their own motherboard, there is a fairly present chance that it will not work. Why the lack of quality control? I thought we where in a time and place where people could be fairly certain what they made was going to work. Some motherboards just have a token chance that they will flat out be defective, and that bugs me. Any comments or reasons why they are so prone to being defective

 

[CraigRT]

I never worry unless it's someone elses system and they wanted to save money (ECS mainboard anyone)
I have only had ONE DOA board ever. and I've only had maybe 3-4 go bad in like 5 years of fixing/building PC's

decent average IMO.

 

[Peter]

Most of those cases are DIY failures rather than mainboard failures - underpowered PSUs, poorly mounted CPU cooling, bad quality or subpar specification RAM, all those things.

Never had a DOA mainboard ever, in more than a decade. Had plenty of cries for help from people who did kill things in an attempt to build their own stuff, though.