Do all DFI Mobo RMA's look like mine??

I got my RMA back from DFI.. BUt it looks really strange. it had stickers on it saying "return". Not sure what this all means.
http://www.surfinchemical.com/Zenjirou/lp6.jpg

Any clue?
Thanks

It looks used...

Nice.

They sent you a board somebody else RMA'ed.

You should leave your address in the BIOS or somewhere so that you can contact the person who ends up with the one you sent in :)

um, anyone else realize the fact that the retention grate is taped to the ram sockets....

that was probably something they got sent back...and that return sticker dosent look very professional...probably a mom and pop store or an independadt builder taping on a little reminder to themselves that the board is dead

whats in the socket too ?

There is no way in hell that is an authentic DFI RMA..

LOL! I thought that was an LGA ultra-d until I saw the socket taped to the DIMMs... wow.

Did you actually send it to DFI, or the store that you purchaced it at?

yikes....thats unreal.

Oh wow.....that is not very nice. Board broken and now it looks worse after RMA? lol
Why did they tape the socket on the DDR slots and expose the pins? Isn't that easier to damage than with the socket in its place?

Yeah that's shady. My RMA'd DFI's looked like new boards...

I got my mobo back from RMA once, had the little sticker on chipset... they wouldn't RMA it because of AS5 on the chipset.

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Originally Posted by eBoy0

I got my mobo back from RMA once, had the little sticker on chipset... they wouldn't RMA it because of AS5 on the chipset.

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WOW that is HARSH! For a company that focuses on overclocking boards, they should expect overclockers to do that.

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Originally Posted by eBoy0

I got my mobo back from RMA once, had the little sticker on chipset... they wouldn't RMA it because of AS5 on the chipset.

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That sucks ass man.. but all you have to do is replace the AS5 with cheap Thermal Tape and they don't know the difference ;)

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Originally Posted by afireinside

LOL! I thought that was an LGA ultra-d until I saw the socket taped to the DIMMs... wow.

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Exactly what I what thinking.

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Originally Posted by nn_step

That sucks ass man.. but all you have to do is replace the AS5 with cheap Thermal Tape and they don't know the difference ;)

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I hate those pink TIM that they put on the chipset heatsinks. They are a pain to remove..........

Those pink stuff are always on the ASUS chipsets.

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That sucks ass man.. but all you have to do is replace the AS5 with cheap Thermal Tape and they don't know the difference ;)

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I did, but then they sent it back because it didnt have the thermal pad that's originially on there.

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Originally Posted by eBoy0

I got my mobo back from RMA once, had the little sticker on chipset... they wouldn't RMA it because of AS5 on the chipset.

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DFI?

Because according to dfi-street, they accept AS5 as being ok on chipset!

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I did, but then they sent it back because it didnt have the thermal pad that's originially on there.

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really? They didn't seem to mind when I did that.. that really really sucks man:(

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I did, but then they sent it back because it didnt have the thermal pad that's originially on there.

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Jeeez that is being picky

:slap: DFI

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I got my mobo back from RMA once, had the little sticker on chipset... they wouldn't RMA it because of AS5 on the chipset.

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Over at dfi-street the DFI USA support guys recommend doing the AS5 thing on the chipset cooler and the thread by Angry_games explicitly says you don't void your warranty doing so. Unless you screw it up, of course, AS5 on the circuits is bad news.

It's a sticky in their NF4 section.

eBoy0: Print out the thread uOpt mentioned above and RMA it again. lol

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Originally Posted by kcnyc

eBoy0: Print out the thread uOpt mentioned above and RMA it again. lol

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Ummm well i can post quotes from wut i recived from Donna(DFI RMA chick), but i dont understand why they must go through this standard procedure... the DIMM slots were messed up not the chipset, anyways sorry for thread jacking, but i got me a nice mobo from Mwave(A.D0) RMA'ing the mobo another 4th time is a pain... since i lose $$ in shipping.

Well, this makes two companies I will never buy stuff from

-DFI
-Mushkin (Hynix DT-D5 XP3200 V2 from PC-3500 Black Lvl2 RMA):stick:

Call Mushkin, I've sent stuff back and almost always have gotten upgrades from what I sent in.