LoneWolf said:Translation...you lack the and tolerance required to be a good tech. Please turn in your tech card now, and rather than being upset with the AMD scene, consider that it could be you got one dud board out of a batch of good ones and that RMA-ing might have solved everything. Furthermore, it looks like your lack of patience led to you taking your temper out on a system board you could have RMA-ed successfully.
After working with multiple brands of boards for both Intel and AMD CPUs, even the best brands I've seen have a defect rate. You too, could get one of these on occasion. I've also seen situations (including those of my own) where because I didn't know something about a piece of hardware, I blamed the hardware or a defective part when there was just a setting or issue I needed to know about to get things running. It required patience.
I agree. I damn near cried my first time setting up that same mobo with SATA drives. It didnt even post the first time. Patience is virtue man, especially when it comes to money.