5/5

posted Feb-12-2008

I ordered a used motherboard, received it, and it didn't work. I called to get details and make sure I understood their return policy. The CSR and (more so) the tech rep seemed annoyed with me, but told me to just send the board back.

I called the morning following the day I received notice that the ruturn board had been delivered; the CSR told me the lady who handles their ruturns was out that day, so I asked to speak the the guy I had spoken to previously, and she passed me on to "Richard". Richard said they would send out another board that day.

After some time (a week +/- 2-days). I received two boards-- One, the dual PIII OR840G I orders, and another single processor PII/PIII board. Neither worked.

Now - since 1989 (8088s) I've build countless systems. The first HDD I installed was a Seagate ST225, 20MB MFM HDD, jumper settings, debug, low-level formatting.... the works.

I've spent 22 years in the US Army as an electrical/electronics technician on communications equipment and aircraft weapon and sighting systems (my troubleshooting and systems integration skills and experience are second to none)!

Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems.
Master's in Instructional Systems Design

Current employment: Computer Simulations Engineer - Aviation Warfighting Simulation Center, Directorate of Simulations, US Army Aviation Center. All day/Everyday I build computers, install OSs (MS, Linux, Solaris, Irix...), install specialized software, configure network services....

I placed every component I attempted to use on their motherboards on a PII/PIII 100Mhz motherboard that I have, and everthing (processor, memory, video, power supply) works flawlessly.

3 Boards from ADC:
No Beep
No Video
No POST

1 – The first Board didn't work
2 – Neither of the 2 boars sent the second time work. They just don't work.

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