Never say never :)

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I have been singing Gigabytes praises since the days I built my first PC, AMD K6.

I always recommend them and always tell people how I have never had a Gigabyte board fail on me. Well, never say never!

Last Thursday night I left my PC on and went to go watch tv, on my return I found the PC frozen. Ok I though, lets reboot. Nada, zip, zilch. Dead, no POST but fans and everything come on. Anyway I left it as it's long weekend and got other things to do.

Come today I decided to have a look. Removed GPU & Wireless cards. Disconnected all drives, swapped RAM, swapped PSU. Conclusion, MB is fooked.

Took pc into PC Zone, they looked at it and came to the same conclusion. Fortunately it is under warranty and they are going to swap the board out with the supplier as they no longer have stock of the specific model, I might even get a newer board.

Anyway, never say never!
 
So one gigabyte board has died on you from what i gather?

Whats the problem? Any computer part made by any company can have problems.
 
killadoob said:
So one gigabyte board has died on you from what i gather?

Whats the problem? Any computer part made by any company can have problems.
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There is absolutely no problem, just irony.

I will continue to buy Gigagbyte as I still believe it is an excellent product.

The thread was not a rant, just trying to point out the irony. When I said Gigabyte has never failed me i should have added "touch wood" maybe. That whole thing about Murphies law and what not.
 
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davemc said:
I blame Eskom for these problems. I really do.
Are you perhaps running a decent in-line ups?
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No UPS unfortunately.

Yes, power fluctuations really wreak havoc with electronics. Mind you, we have been experiencing dimming lights and the odd once off a day power outage lasting 10-120min.


I recall lots of peoples pcs dying on them when we had load shedding back in the day. Things just seemed to die en mass during that period.

Oh well, I will have a new Gigabyte board soon and hopefully it is a newer model. My warranty would have expired on 20 June so it's good it decided to die now.
 
Does your's have the Northbridge cooler fan and heatsink attached? Mine died of this when the fan failed from too much dust buildup, and it fried the Northbridge - motherboard knackered. Swapped it out with Rectron, no charge. :D
 
Wow, PC Zone sold you a Gigabyte board? I've only ever their PCs built using obscure sweatshop built mobos that when you google the brand name all the results need to be translated.
 
my pc did the same thing. found out it was my gpu (8800gtx) it was like it slipped out of my pci port, well every oone of the. bought a new box that has some sort of gizzmo that holds the gpu in place. i also thought it was mobo, had it replaced, still the same, but now no problems! also blamed eskom.... for awhile..
 
Fudzy said:
Wow, PC Zone sold you a Gigabyte board? I've only ever their PCs built using obscure sweatshop built mobos that when you google the brand name all the results need to be translated.
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That was back in the day and does not happen anymore. All their internal components are proper brands now. The MBs are either Intel or Gigabyte, I specified Gigabyte on purchase. The RAM was Transcend, the HDs are Seagate.

I have a 4yr old pc zone pc lying here with a faulty MB that is some obscure brand though but it is from way back.

I think they realised that the crap they were selling was resulting in lots of comebacks so they must have switched to reputable brands. Only ****e thing they still bundle with their pcs are the Samsung optical drives.
 
milomak said:
how so when you don't know when he initially built this system?
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I think he was just speaking in general.

Our power is not that great to be honest.

System was purchased 2008/06/20 for anyone wondering.
 
davemc said:
I blame Eskom for these problems. I really do.
Are you perhaps running a decent in-line ups?
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No kidding. One day the power here cut out so I just left and did a few things, came back in a few hours when the power was back on and the PC was dead, cost R8000 :mad:
 
Well the board turned out to be a lower spec version of the same model. No Gigabit Ethernet so I left it there...
 
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