On Dec 5, 2007 10:22 AM, Tim Wilson <<a href="mailto:tim_linux@wilson-home.com">tim_linux@wilson-home.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Oh, Biostar. Hate to say it, but that could be the problem there. I used to like Biostar, until I had a problem, and a guy at work told me about a problem he had. </blockquote></div><br>A friend of mine who was building computers in large-ish quantities told me about two years ago that he was getting close to 30% defect rate for off the shelf motherboards he was buying. He had a policy of building the system and burning in the motherboards for 24 hours before he'd ship. He'd save up all the duds and ship them back (I think to Ingram) once a month. IIRC, this was quite a bit higher than his defect rate for ram sticks and hard drives (though he did have a person nearly dedicated to doing RMAs for drives that died inside their warranty period).
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode