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--- Quote from: DrewKaree on March 31, 2005, 11:58:29 am ---I may have to re-read their policy.

I could have sworn that, while you are correct on the 15-day policy, it doesn't apply to motherboards and one or two other specific items that I can't remember, although power supplies seems to ring a bell.

I'd also have to believe the manufacturer's warranty wouldn't apply to a refurbished board, although they probably would give you something like a 30 day deal.

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Their policy - my bad:

"Refurbished merchandise are
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DrewKaree:

No, there's more to their policy than that, that was just a portion of it.

Their refurbs are done by the manufacturers, they don't resell used items.

SirPeale:


--- Quote from: DrewKaree on March 31, 2005, 12:01:01 pm ---Peale, I dunno if you checked it yesterday, but I just checked it and it's $29 today. 

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Yeah, *that*  board was always $29.  The board I was looking at (a straight replacement for the board I already have) was $39.  But it was gone the next day.

Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: DrewKaree on April 01, 2005, 02:26:40 am ---No, there's more to their policy than that, that was just a portion of it.
Their refurbs are done by the manufacturers, they don't resell used items.

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I think it varies - if you send a board back and say - "Hey, I thought this board had a network controller and it doesn't, I don't want it", they will sell it as-is as a refurb.  If you send it back as "PC won't boot, replacement board works fine, they send it back to be reconditioned."

I've bought a couple of refurbed boards from them.  One came with full manuals, driver CD and cables and looked like what I would get retail.  One came with just the board and driver CD and you could see where a jumper wire had been soldered onto the board to complete a faulty trace.  They both worked well, though.

BTW, from what I remember, they tend to post a ton of refurbed mobos between 10:00 and 11:00 A.M on Wednesdays EST, and the really good ones are gone by 11:30 A.M., FWIW!

SirPeale:

I got JoyMonkey's board, an Asus K7V8X-X.  It seems to work well.  However, my problems seem to have followed me, which means (at least I believe) that the original board is still good!

It appears to be a faulty processor.  Strange.  I swapped it out with a 1GHz Athlon and it comes up just fine (I'm tying on it right now) although for whatever reason I can't get it @ 1GHz, I'm stuck @ 750MHz.  If I try to go higher it locks. 

I've got a Duron 650 I'd like to try as well.  But if I try booting with my Athlon XP 2400+, it flashes the BIOS screen for a microsecond, and shuts down.  Just like it was doing on the other board (with the exception of having the HD attached, it would boot then.)

Time for more testing!

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