[Cialug] New Computer Hardware Issue

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Dec 5, 2007 10:22 AM, Tim Wilson <tim_linux at wilson-home.com> wrote:

> 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.


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).

-- 
Matthew Nuzum
newz2000 on freenode
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