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bzarcherWell, Asus continues to pass the buck on troubleshooting or RMA'ing the replacement board.
Meanwhile, my Dad and I talked. He agreed that this was kinda ridiculous, and extended his offer to help me get a Dell again. He even said that I just have to pay him the monthly payments, and not to worry about money up front.
Dimension XPS Pentium® 4 Processor 550 with HT Technology (3.40GHz, 800 FSB)
FREE UPGRADE! 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz (2x512M)
128MB PCI Express™ x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radeon™ X800 SE X800SE [320-3915]
FREE UPGRADE! 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
Operating System Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional WPXP
Mouse Dell™ Optical USB Mouse
Network Interface Integrated Gigabit Ethernet
CD or DVD Drive Dual Drives: 16x DVD-ROM Drive + 16x DVD+RW/+R w/ dbl layer write capable
Sound Card Sound Blaster Audigy™2 (D) Card w/Dolby 5.1, and IEEE 1394 capability
4 Yr Ltd Warr,4 Yr At-Home plus Nights and Weekend
XPS Specialized Support
CompleteCare Accidental Damage Service -4 years.
Estimated delivery is 9/15-9/16.
Alex and I will get his old fileserver running, and we'll put my old drives in there so I can do a data restore/transfer.
And then we'll be ready to go to town, boyos.
Then we'll be ready to go to town.
I will be the first to say I could have built it myself for cheaper, but that wouldn't get me in home service, a warranty that lasts for a year and a half past when I finish paying for it, or $50 monthly payments, which makes that fit in my budget much better than $1500 to build something equivalent.
And that 2 week wait is actually less than I'd be waiting for a new board if I was somehow able to ship the current motherboard back to Asus today and let them do the 10 buisness day RMA process on it before sending it back.
It's one of the highest-end machines I've ever used, and the only thing that I can think of that beats it in terms of performance right now is the new gaming machine I built for Steve. Even then, I have a slight edge in processor speed...
Damn, it's exciting.
Meanwhile, my Dad and I talked. He agreed that this was kinda ridiculous, and extended his offer to help me get a Dell again. He even said that I just have to pay him the monthly payments, and not to worry about money up front.
Dimension XPS Pentium® 4 Processor 550 with HT Technology (3.40GHz, 800 FSB)
FREE UPGRADE! 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz (2x512M)
128MB PCI Express™ x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radeon™ X800 SE X800SE [320-3915]
FREE UPGRADE! 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
Operating System Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional WPXP
Mouse Dell™ Optical USB Mouse
Network Interface Integrated Gigabit Ethernet
CD or DVD Drive Dual Drives: 16x DVD-ROM Drive + 16x DVD+RW/+R w/ dbl layer write capable
Sound Card Sound Blaster Audigy™2 (D) Card w/Dolby 5.1, and IEEE 1394 capability
4 Yr Ltd Warr,4 Yr At-Home plus Nights and Weekend
XPS Specialized Support
CompleteCare Accidental Damage Service -4 years.
Estimated delivery is 9/15-9/16.
Alex and I will get his old fileserver running, and we'll put my old drives in there so I can do a data restore/transfer.
And then we'll be ready to go to town, boyos.
Then we'll be ready to go to town.
I will be the first to say I could have built it myself for cheaper, but that wouldn't get me in home service, a warranty that lasts for a year and a half past when I finish paying for it, or $50 monthly payments, which makes that fit in my budget much better than $1500 to build something equivalent.
And that 2 week wait is actually less than I'd be waiting for a new board if I was somehow able to ship the current motherboard back to Asus today and let them do the 10 buisness day RMA process on it before sending it back.
It's one of the highest-end machines I've ever used, and the only thing that I can think of that beats it in terms of performance right now is the new gaming machine I built for Steve. Even then, I have a slight edge in processor speed...
Damn, it's exciting.
