Who to try and get some $ out of?

[obob]

Alright, my Pentium 4's ECS motherboard just lit on fire about 2 hours ago, i'm not makin this up, flames and smoke, the whole show, right out of the motherboard, the damage to the baord isn't that amazing, but wtf do I do know? Is there any recourse with this or do I just throw it into the trash and say whatever?

Do I contact ECS and say give me parts or I sue your arses for endangerment? Do I try and RMA it to newegg? What now?

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/9454/firecf9.jpg
Btw that image is BIG (i don't have a digital camera, so I use my scanner to take pictures of hardware, which is why the depth perception looks really really weird)

[hm_murdock]

How long ago did you purchase it? If it's still in newegg's warranty, call them, describe what happened, and see if it's covered by their warranties.

[obob]

About, hmmm, 3 months ago, probably out of the 90 day warranty, but I don't want another one, ECS' RMA is some total BS, "at ECS' descretion ECS reserves the right to replace your product with a recertified product of similar capacity"

that's some straight up BULLSHIT

allright, the egg will still support on RMA on this thing, even though it's beyond 90 days, got the #, gonna package it up and try to get it sent out tomorrow or monday, question though, wtf do i send as far as cables? I got the driver CD, the card reader, the board itself, it's box, it's booklet, i know it came with cables, but i don't know where they are, and i'm assuming the backplane is still in the box (i don't run caseless, i just don't use backplanes, it's just a hastle to get them in)

[WMD]

90 day warranty?  lol.

Never buy ANYTHING that important with less than a 1-year warranty.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

Never heard of ECS ... might wanna try another company next time, a more reliable mobo company (like ASUS). If they won't repair it, try a repair shop, and if they won't either then salvage what you can (any detachable chips and the processor) and chunk it. Or you could always try to sell it on e-bay as an "almost new ECS mobo".

[obob]

Ok A) ECS is like the 3rd largest motherboard maker in the world
B) I buy reliable mobos as a general rule, except when "the reliable companies" don't have what I need
C) i hate Asus
D) apparently newegg offers a 1 year warranty (ECS' warranty is 1 year, newegg claimed 90 day on RMA but then said 1 year, and gave me an RMA, goes in the mail tomorrow morning)

and as far as repairing it look at the picture...

[hm_murdock]

Why do you hate Asus?

[Lead Head]

ASUS has gone down hill since the Athlon 64 days on their AMD side, their intel side is still doing pretty good...

I have an ECS Socket 939 mobo, it works, does what I want it to.

EPoX, DFI, MSI, ASUS, ECS, Foxconn, Gigabyte are all good motherboard brands, newer ABITs tend to be really buggy

[H_TeXMeX_H]

ASUS is only mobo company I've really ever bought from and so far all the boards are still working at full capacity ... nothing has ever broken, the oldest one now being about 14 years old or so. The other's ages vary like 3, 5, 8 years. I don't see any reason to hate them.

[obob]

I just dislike their offerings/price, similar to Seagate pre-SATA II ($100 for 80GB ATA-100 and Maxtor had ATA-133 for $70, and this was before Maxtor tanked)

and Lead Head, you might wanna remove ECS from your post, that pic is an ECS P4 board, but atm i'm looking at ASRock (the irony is that it's an Asus owned company)

[hm_murdock]

:: nods head rhythmically, like a psychologist ::

Uh huh. Uh huh.

Uh huh. Uh huh. Uh huh.

Have you ever thought about the effects of the childhood Oedipal complex on your thoughts about Maxtor and Lead Head?

[pofnlice]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I like asus...and abit and gigabyte...as a matter of a fact, I aven't found a brand I  dislike yet...I've seen lots of motherboards I didn't feel suited my needs...

[Refalm]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I like asus...and abit and gigabyte...as a matter of a fact, I aven't found a brand I  dislike yet...I've seen lots of motherboards I didn't feel suited my needs...

I kinda disliked ASUS for giving "Overclocking Failed" errors with stock Pentium 4's. And not everyone understands their BIOS, which can sometimes crash.

[Lead Head]

If your going for brands like ECS or EPoX, make sure you go with their high end products. ASRock is also good

[Refalm]

ASRock is also good

From my experience as a former computer assembler, I know ASUS is shit and ASRock is crap.

Some motherboards of ASRock can't even get the proper clocking speed right on some Pentium processors. Although their instruction videos are both hilarious as sexy.