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Seems ASRock has ghosted me... Welp here's the email thread

@LinusTech @jakkuh_t @James

Is there anyone at LMG that help me out with this? ASRock is really giving me a hard time and it really starting to get on my nerves sigh...

Forums finally lets me upload the pic of the m.2 stand off

Well a follow up on this. Safe to say ASRock is ripping me off.... They sent me a preapproved label to do FedEx ground shipping in the US and I can't use that to send the board back to them as I live in a different country.

They're not even really trying to help the situation at hand. I paid to send a faulty board back to them and they didn't even have the decency to send me back a working one. Welp guess I'll be no longer recommending them in the future as good at their boards might be

33 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Probs a sitting refurb. The taichis are high end low moving quantity stuff so not too surprising.

It's quite annoying tbh, why send out a board in that condition if you weren't going to test and make sure it's working completely first. Thing could be damaged in other ways and it fried my cpu and they wouldn't replace it for sending out a faulty board.

16 minutes ago, Sormicoft said:

first things first try another GPU D0 is a memory or VGA card issue, 

Doesn't post with or without a GPU or either ofthe two memory kits I have on hand. It posted once with my friend's 5600g and hasn't since that one time

1 hour ago, GreatnessRD said:

Send it right back to they asses.

I'm not spending money again to send back a faulty board that I shouldn't have received in the first place

56 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Sounds likenit got damaged in shipping/during testing send it back

It's not a new board, too much dust on it for it to be new. Most likely one that came in for RMA as well

As the title says a RMA board I got as part of a RMA process is giving me D0 not matter what CPU I use. I borrowed my buddy's system and my 3600, zotac gtx 970, and 16 gb 3200Mhz Corsair vengeance RGB Pro post on his board, so I know those are good, I've tried his 5600G in the board and it posted ONCE and went back to giving D0. For some reason the forums is not allowing me to upload the image of the standoff.

Things I've done so far:

Reseat RAM, CPU, GPU

Cleared CMOS

Several Bios flashes (different versions, board has bios flashback so it's relatively easy and okay to flash older versions)

Tried a different CPU with only successful POST

Tried 1 stick of ram in each slot, tried mixing his ram with mine. 

NADA

Edit: So ASRock has sent me a prepaid shipping label to send it back... Let's see how this goes

Edit #2: Shipping label was a bust, it was for FedEx ground shipping and they are not willing to send me an international one.... This is really pissing me off. Also I've attached the damage I saw on the board when I got it

Some background to this saga, bought an x570 taichi last year for my birthday in April and it sat unused for then until about September/October (was waiting on 5900x/5950x prices to drop), one day my cpu was reading 70-96c while streaming some netflix so I tore down the system to check that the pump in my aio didn't die and to repaste but just so happens my buddy brought over his system for me to update the bios and when I slapped on his stock cooler on to my system to just do a quick boot and grab the new bios, system wasn't powering on. Contacted ASRock and went through the RMA process and got back the RMA unit on Wednesday and first thing I saw as I was inspecting it was one of the screws that holds down the m.2 heatshield was loose and taking it off revealed the standoff with it's anchor was ripped from the board, sent a picture to ASRock support and haven't heard back from them as yet. I proceed to try to put my cpu on the board and my gtx 970 and powered it on and boom D0, take out on RAM stcik and trying it in different slots with the same error, flash the most recent bios on their website and still the same error, flash on a couple older ones and same error, ask my buddy to borrow his system and flashed on the bios version that added support for the 5600G and POSTed to bios, so I try the 3600 and gtx 970 again and nothing.

Now that I'v seen this post again, I have to sit down and tinker with this 3600 and see how the memory behaves

I find that I can't win my disputes. Last two times I've used papypal to get a refund because the seller stopped responding after sending the money as goods and services and paypal denied the refund both times. Even attached screenshots and everything and they said evidence wasn't sufficient

On 12/16/2021 at 12:08 AM, dogwitch said:

side bar.

will you ever be trying some boinc projects?

I have the feeling my pc is too potato for that atm. Is that mostly CPU or GPU?

I going to be a folding event newbie

Been trying to swap in a 1080 that belongs to a friend but none of my psu's would co-operate and the new one is still stuck in customs Q.Q

13 minutes ago, Arika S said:

Sorry....But why don't they just block it, why do they need to sue NVidia to get money out of them? They are government department for christ sake just do it.

That would be the logical and sensible thing to do but then again capitalism doesn't benefit from the sensible thing

7 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

I've seen plenty of Linux channels chastising Linus for not reading the wall of text citing the fact that him having to stop and type should have been enough warning. Except that, as a new user to Linux how was he supposed to know that this message was abnormal?

This here is the reason why I have never been able to use linux long term. It's not novice friendly and usually some individuals in the linux community are snarky a-holes who are less than helpful and only alienate the new comers who then revert back to windows or Mac Os. Linux is an awesome set of Os's but the communities for some of the distros are partly the reason why some distros don't get the recognition they deserve for being novice friendly.

Getting in some folding here and there. Feeling much better and hopefully I'll be back out toe work so my pc and fold 24/7

Home with covid so I haven't done any folding since Monday I believe 

25 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

if you aren't on GooglePlay, you essentially don't exist

Due to how google geo-fences apps that are global (whatsapp and Clash of clans at one point as examples) a lot of people have other app stores like aptoide and 1mobile market to access said app. Shit my friend released an app that was supposed to be for local use in my country and guess what google did? Geo-restricted it so no one from our country could actually use it for about 6 months. So no, not being on the play store isn't detrimental to an apps existence, sometimes it really hurts to be on there and sideloading really help a lot.

5 hours ago, Video Beagle said:

I'm sure if you research you'll find some majorly huge companies that no one here has ever heard of but pays tons of money to microsoft for licenses has mission critical software that's never been updated to 64 bit and the people who know how it actually works died 10 years ago.   That's why.

 

And I assume msoft made the cost/benefit analysis that shows rather than forking Windows to deal with that, keeping it as is is better.

 

As much as people like to embue companies with some kind of personality, it's really all just basic cost/benefit decisions that lead to these kind of things.

 

Now, if you'll excuse me, my old iPhone that was discontinued 5 years ago, and stopped being able to get the new OS about 3 years ago, just gave me a notification of a brand new security and bug patch/update.

 

You do know the 64-bit versions of windows does 32-bit emulation since 32-bit hardware doesn't exactly exist in wider consumer space hence making 32-bit versions of windows a waste of resources to develop and up keep, and if a business has mission critical software that only runs in 32-bit mode I can assure you those businesses aren't upgrading the os it runs on (unless it's linux) to lose that functionality or corrupting any databases that reside in it. They most likely will run that software in a VM or try their hardest to keep some spare hardware that they can transplant the needed parts to keep it running.

16 hours ago, dalekphalm said:

Maybe - but then you run into the issue of app Developers sticking on 32-bit because it's already there, and holding the entire platform back.

Oh look microsoft, here's something decent you could take out apples book going forward. I legit don't know why they still have 32-bit windows 10 even though they said there wasn't going to be one

19 hours ago, Commodus said:

That's definitely good, although it reinforces one of the things that bugs me about support in Windows and Android circles: this tendency toward short-lived support unless you pay a premium for it. Yeah, it's great that you can get help with a decade-old business PC through a pricey business contract, but if you just bought a $500 consumer laptop? Be thankful if you even get three years, plebe.

Generally it's more practical for a business to have hardware to run some piece of custom software so they end up with those expensive support contracts, whereas us consumers are expected to change systems every few years since 3-5 years of us is a fairly long time for consumer pc hardware, but I'm look forward to the day where we don't have to upgrade so often and hardware support is a lot better on the windows side of things. Apple nor microsoft can touch the hardware support of linux if we're going to be totally honest about it.

19 hours ago, Distinctly Average said:

Not always the case

I know that why I said they can and not they will support it. Wouldn't be good business for them to support every businesses ancient hardware cause then some businesses would never upgrade, as it is some business still have win xp and vista systems deployed as daily drivers becasue they don't see it as necessary to upgrade them if they work.

9 hours ago, dalekphalm said:

Dell does better than most

In my experience Dell can support hardware for over 10 years, IF you're a registered Dell Business partner. At my first job I've had to do services on legacy machines that were running windows 95 and 98 on some ancient optiplexs' that still got support from Dell but that comes at a cost. Not sure if HP and the likes have a similar thing with their business users.

3 hours ago, manikyath said:

i hope that is a joke...

A terrible one at that

6 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

@porina

 

Why would single or dual rank affect things? I always thought single rank was better because they usually clock higher and can run at tighter timings than dual rank RAM. But having same speed and same timings, why would there be a 20% performance difference between single and dual rank RAM ?

One dual rank dimm is equivalent to two single rank dimms of the same speed and timings

Yes in some cases single rank dimms will OC  way better but board and cpu imc still plays a key factor there and the quality on the chips on either ram set up

7 hours ago, RejZoR said:

AMD doesn't have the money? 

Resources as in talent to get it done properly. We already know hos AMD's drivers go, they start off horrendous then get better with each revision but seeing this is a step up from RDNA1 I'm glad to see there aren't a shit-ton of bugs or maybe that might be due to the low quantity that are actually in the hands of people who would use them and not scalpers.

7 hours ago, RejZoR said:

Interface itself is already light years ahead of archaic garbage NVIDIA has that hasn't been updated since 2006.

Yeah I wish they would update it already, it's really a pain how slow it is compared to intel's and AMD's own software.