when supposedly good products end up having serious problems

[OS]

SB Live, ended up never working right in SMP, drivers never updated

Enermax, pussy ass 5V rails

Nforce2, messed up IDE drivers

 

[Black88GTA]

Many name brand mobos made 2-3 years ago (Abit, Gigabyte, and others) were produced with flawed electrolyte in the capacitors that caused them to bulge and pop. My Abit board had caps like this on it.

IBM can't seem to make a hard drive that lasts more than 2 years.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

See here: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=34&threadid=1183179

Also:

Both kt133a boards I've owned have froze in windows.

I used to have an Asus board that wouldn't reboot right, I had to shut it off and power back on every time.

and this is a great topic. I bet this thread will get pretty long.

 

[Need4Speed]

well lets see...where to start. I think the most annoying problem I had was with an Abit BF6 that could never reboot without being reset and constantly froze in the Bios. Also had another Abit board that couldn't run windows but worked flawlessly under linux. I had an epox board and an enermax power supply that wouldnt play nicely together...the 5v rail always ran low, but the PS worked fine with other mobos. Just thinking about all those little quirks makes me shiver...all those wasted hours trying to solve those problems.

 

[Viper0329]

IBM Deathstar. The 75GXP was hailed as one of the fastest IDE drives of the time. Who knew the had about an 80% failure rate.

The SBLive! had serious issues running with the VIA MVP3 chipset too.

 

[AnMig]

Shuttle AN35N Ultra 400 bought one 2 weeks ago at newegg, for $60

Most problematic board I have ever had.
DVD wiriter and cdrw did not write properly when populating the same IDE cable will burn fine when the either one is the only drive on the cable.
Finally kicked the bucket this week, does not want to finish booting just kept on cycling thru the boot process.

I figured 2 weeks should be enough to say I really tried to get this board to work properly. RMA'd back to new egg and got a NFORCE2 A7N8X DELUXE ASUS .

The AN35N got great reviews here and is often suggested as a good budget NFORCE board. This is the first board I have RMA'd due to problems.

 

[Mitzi]

ATi Radeon 8500...had nothing but problems from the minute I bought that card...poor performance and every game needed hour upon hour of tweaking just to run. I ended up selling it (at a large loss) about 2 weeks later and getting a GeForce4 instead.

PS: Please don't turn this into a flame war.

 

[Is]

Corsair XMS 3700 PPT - despite promises of high speeds, delivers poor latencies and doesn't like to go past 260FSB on a 5:4 divider. Probably a CH5 problem, next time I'm going OCZ.

 

[Firus]

I worked for a school district...we had to replace over 300 mobos due to the bad electrolyte in the capactiors. Fun stuff

 

[ozonecomputer]

I had an Artec 16x DVD Rom for a while. The thing started off by scratching disks, including my Windows disk, which really put me in a good mood. I sent it back on an RMA and they said they fixed it, but I'm not so sure about that. It no longer scratched disks, but it would crash pretty much every time I tried to watch a DVD. I have a nicer one now and will never buy an Artec again.

 

[OS]

Originally posted by: AnMig
Shuttle AN35N Ultra 400 bought one 2 weeks ago at newegg, for $60

Most problematic board I have ever had.
DVD wiriter and cdrw did not write properly when populating the same IDE cable will burn fine when the either one is the only drive on the cable.
Finally kicked the bucket this week, does not want to finish booting just kept on cycling thru the boot process.

I figured 2 weeks should be enough to say I really tried to get this board to work properly. RMA'd back to new egg and got a NFORCE2 A7N8X DELUXE ASUS .

The AN35N got great reviews here and is often suggested as a good budget NFORCE board. This is the first board I have RMA'd due to problems.

Man, I was gonna buy one of those boards too. :Q

This thread already saved me an extra headache.

 

[OS]

Originally posted by: Black88GTA
Many name brand mobos made 2-3 years ago (Abit, Gigabyte, and others) were produced with flawed electrolyte in the capacitors that caused them to bulge and pop. My Abit board had caps like this on it.

IBM can't seem to make a hard drive that lasts more than 2 years.

My BP6 had that problem. It really sucked. I later just removed the bad ones myself and put in my own.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: OS

Originally posted by: AnMig
Shuttle AN35N Ultra 400 bought one 2 weeks ago at newegg, for $60

Most problematic board I have ever had.
DVD wiriter and cdrw did not write properly when populating the same IDE cable will burn fine when the either one is the only drive on the cable.
Finally kicked the bucket this week, does not want to finish booting just kept on cycling thru the boot process.

I figured 2 weeks should be enough to say I really tried to get this board to work properly. RMA'd back to new egg and got a NFORCE2 A7N8X DELUXE ASUS .

The AN35N got great reviews here and is often suggested as a good budget NFORCE board. This is the first board I have RMA'd due to problems.

Man, I was gonna buy one of those boards too. :Q

This thread already saved me an extra headache.

one persons bad experience generally isn't enough to deter me... generally ppl seem happy w/ the board...

 

[buckmasterson]

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Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey


I used to have an Asus board that wouldn't reboot right, I had to shut it off and power back on every time.

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I'll second that! I love my A7N8X, but it will not restart every time. I end up shutting it off, then restarting it. A pain is the butt for such a stable board!

 

[Trente]

S3 failed to implement T&L support in their drivers for the Savage 2000 chip.

ATi failed to supply drivers for Win2K on its Rage Fury MAXX.

Aureal failed to supply drivers for its Vortex2 chip on Win2K platform.

 

[chocoruacal]

*Corsair RAM. Rock solid? Yes. Runs advertised timings/speed? Yes. Runs even the tiniest bit faster than advertised timings/speed? Hell no. Generic RAM overclocks higher.

*Any Creative product.

*Early Pentium 4s

*kt400 and...hehehe...kt400a

 

[Gunbuster]

Sony Minidisc

1: (mid 90's) Sony never got its act together for DataMD's when they could have ruled ZIP disks

2: (late 90's-2000's) Sony not putting DataMD and MP3 together when they could have ruled the portable market