My Dual Harper - Asus Z7S WS living review *56K warning*

[RomanZen]

hey ya,

just here to confirm another dead Z7S.

as you may guess VRM's burnt (again)

case (lian li b-25) mb tray after fireworks



some more funny things.

asus SERVER support only reachable from monday to friday in regular office times. (board went bbq on saturday morning)

phoned them monday morning 09:00. stuff was done quickly since it wasn't the first replacement. ensured that the board will have latest bios update. they failed there at the first replacement. which then needed a 2nd board to be sent with an actual bios.

replacement board arrival ETA by the support was tuesday.

On thursday with no board arrived or any further information from the server support i called them back to get any information about this.

me: hey whats up board should have been arrived but i have none yet.

happy supporter guy: let me check (busy typing in the background) oh yeah, i got it. we have none of these boards in stock. and there is no delivery date.
i should have informed you about that. but i didn't, my apologies for that.

i will get the delivery date for the mb and call you back in 30 minutes.

guess what?

45 minutes later there was no call.

i went to an appointment then, doing dmg control. cause these board in combination with the extra great support is making my customers very mad. cause i can't hold my schedules without my main workstation.

thats now 24h ago.
guess what? no call, no email, no nothing yet.



i got a question now to you guys.

i am trying to find an alternative board.

is there any tyan board not needing ecc rams ? aka is it possible to switch to tyan (or some other mb) without having to switch the fb-dimms which was needed by the z7s.

best regards,

romanzen