Mobo QA seems to be lacking these days

[musicman7722]

Ok this is meant to be a whaddaya think thread. Yesterday for the umpteenth time I've had a brand new mobo die or be dead right out of the box. I now have a stack of dead mobo's. This latest is a MB BIOSTAR P4M80-M4 P4M800. This is the second I've had. The first one went in fine but the client keeps complaining of lock ups - so far he has been patient. I chalked this up to his aging turbo mouse. I just got in another of this mobob for another build and when it boots up I get a Checksum error and the board will not recognize a mouse or keyboard. Tried diff ones and even usb. Nope. Then I tried some higher ram no change and even a different cpu, finally it stopped booting at all. It is heading back to newEgg toady, not that I blame them thjough I have noticed fewer and fewr mobo's are warrantied by them. So what is it, is it me or are they releasing mobo's that sometimes work. Chris P.

[Kymera]

I find that most of the Mobo errors these days seem to be related to all of the junk that companies are throwing on the mobo which cause weird problems with cards you may add-in later. You can't use boards with certain chipsets with a particular network or video card. Some boards with onboard RAID require that you use the master ports on the non-RAID IDE headers, before the slaves, and leave the drives on cable select or it won't POST. Some boards hang mid-POST if you have a mouse plugged into the USB3 header. So yeah, I think that QA has been getting iffier as time goes on, but some price has to be paid as everything is integrated into the MB. More complexity = more chances for something to not work quite right.

I wouldn't even be posting this if I just didn't have these problems very recently.

[Ferrit]

You might want to try a little higher quality motherboard.
MSI,Asus,Abit,Gigabyte

[geoscomp]

I've had two Asus motherboards from NewEgg come in recently doa with swollen caps.

[Ferrit]

There is a difference between buying down there and up here
Here I buy from a wholesaler,never retail unless its an emergency
in 8 years I think I may have had 2 DOA motherboards and those they sent me a new one the next morning via RMA and cross shipping