abit a-n78hd mainboard

[nori]

i purchased a abit mainboard in august 2008 and after using it for 2 months the mouse started to freeze intermittently after boot-up and i could fix the problem by clearing the "cmos" but it would eventually return.i sent the board back under their rma program and to my surprise it comes back with a related but kind of different problem-the problem now is that everything will be working fine and then the keyboard stops functioning until i unplug the connector in the back of the computer (mouse freezes then) but then when i reboot the computer everything returns to normal again until i happens intermittently again.if i keep sending this mainboard back the shipping cost adds to the price of the board,so i could have purchased a more expensive board from asus or gigabyte.also i hear that abit may leave the mainboard business due too lost sales-i can believe it!!! they have lost another customer due to their crappy present-day product(can't live on the past) and crappy service (go to their rma website and see their overinflated self-praise).sending the board back with a specific problem only to receive one
with a different problem tells me that they are producing a inferior product that they themselves can not fix-it's probably a bios problem? i like the statement "fool me once,shame on you-shame me twice-shame on me" .no longer a customer of abit.

[The Flying Pig]

I don't blame you. I've had issues using a $300 board (ABIT IN9 32X-MAX) from them in the past.
(http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813127020)
It advertised it was ready to run 1333fsb on the box. Wasn't a sticker, but it was printed on the box.
So being an early adopter, I sold my e6600 for an e6850.
Plugged it in and it ran at some slow frequency. And I couldn't edit the fsb settings in the bios.
Called their customer support, and they recommended me to flash the bios through the Windows Vista OS (which was rather new back then).
Following the guy's instructions, I hit the start button to flash the bios, and got a BSOD immediately.
The guy on the phone was like "oh ****".
I had to drive down to their office (about 30 miles away from my home luckily) to get a new bios chip from them and install it myself.

That's my rant about abit

[skier]

yeah, i actually thought they were out of the market already

i also have an ABIT IN9 32X-MAX 680i board, it is having harsh BIOS issues with my E7200, it won't go to post screen because it has a "BIOS corrupt or incompatible" post code, but martini can tell ya about that, its in his possession at the moment....

[The Flying Pig]

You can contact them to have them send you a new bios chip.
Its not too hard to install, hardest part is wedging the old chip out.. heh.

[skier]

You can contact them to have them send you a new bios chip.
Its not too hard to install, hardest part is wedging the old chip out.. heh.

i know full well how to get one out, i actually tried Hot-Flashing it twice with my 750i board, which obviously didn't work

[nori]

thanks for the feedback,nori