I think I might have the record of most motherboards fried in a short period of time
I have put 17 RMA's into ABIT and 1 into newegg for motherboards that have been fried.
Here is what the problem was. I am watercooling and my first board the hoops broke off of the northbridge to hold down the heatsink(waterblock). RMA'd it since the northbridge fried. Got another one in and but my watercooling stuff in and i think another hoop pulled out
. RMA'd it again. Then I did something with the cpu waterblock mounting bracket that evidently was a bad idea. I took off these spacing nuts because I didn't have much thread to screw the nylon nuts under the motherboard, so by doing this it gave me more thread to work with to tighten it down. Evidently the aluminum bracket was touching a glockgen chip or something like that and as soon as I would hit power it would fry the board. It would turn the fan 1/2 time and that was it. Power everything down clear cmos and everything and turn on, 1/2 turn. I went through many many many of these, either it would work for 1-2 minutes or it would not even turn anything on. I got one in that as soon as I plugged the power cord into the powersupply the whole thing just turned on
I would've been cool with that, except it wouldn't boot. I love abit and stand by their RMA process. Most of those boards I fried and it was my fault, but there were a few that just wouldn't turn on in the first place, this was before I removed the spacers. All and all it cost me nothing for all of that and I would have like 7 IC7-Max3's sitting in my room lol. After the first bad board they were repeat rma's and they shipped it second day air for free each time. I called them and appoligized and said somethingwas hanging off the back of the motherboad tray and kept shorting it and I found the problem(I lied) Love Abit, by far best RMA company I have ever dealt with P.S. Yes I was stupid frying that many boards, but you just don't understand, it usually took me 4 hours to uninstall, reinstall, route wires, make pretty every board I went through, it was a headach and a half
