The Joys of Dead Hardware

[Kyorisu]

Purchased a Asus P5Q Pro today. Stripped the machine it was to go into (Asus P5K) and got everything up and running with two WD 640GB Black drives in Raid 0. Worked fantastic except for the on-board NIC which is completely dead. Nothing will see it so I had to rebuild the machine with the P5K as it's needed urgently tomorrow morning.

Most likely be replaced with a Gigabyte UD3P. Asus, Rock Solid, Heart Touching, not like my wang which has served me reliably for years :naughty:

 

[Barney Fife]

Aaaaand. :upstare:

I'm sorry, I'm slow minded and I totally missed it.
If you mean Nic card was DOA, try exchanging it at the place of purchase, since it may still covered by the retailer, and before trying to RMA it at manufacturer.

Good Luck.

 

[Kyorisu]

Yep DOA which is covered by 7 day replacement so I have to drive to town again to get it replaced. Google says I'm certaintly not the first person to be having problems with this particular board.

 

[Barney Fife]

Google says I'm certaintly not the first person to be having problems with this particular board.

In that case, maybe get store credit, and exchange with different brand/model?
If that's what Google says, then you will most like end up in the same situation, if not now, probably short time down the road.
Though RMA will let you get replacement item; it is most hectic inconvenience just going through it.

PS: Did you check whether your Nic being down due to lack of driver, and, or, bad-installed drive?

Good Luck.

 

[Kyorisu]

Took it back and got it exchanged for the UD3P. The tech on hand had a quick look at the board and concluded that the RJ45 connector was stuffed. Odds are if more than one board was affected as google suggests, that particular store could have gotten a bad batch and I didn't want to take that chance.

All smooth sailing now.

 

[Barney Fife]

Took it back and got it exchanged for the UD3P. The tech on hand had a quick look at the board and concluded that the RJ45 connector was stuffed. Odds are if more than one board was affected as google suggests, that particular store could have gotten a bad batch and I didn't want to take that chance.

Ah! M'key.

Well, Good luck with the replacement. :thumbs:

 

[Sandspider]

Good luck man.

I had a PC catch fire cos of dust in it yesterday... I've never disasembled a PC so fast. Managed to save all but the MBoard/Fan and CPU