A fault is a fault but when its a small one would you be bothered to send it back?

[mrfun1981]

For some strange reason the Ethernet port has stop working on my motherboard, Iv un-installed the drivers & put them back on & iv tried 2 different cables but it still wont work.

Lucky enough iv found a old network card & that works fine it my pc.

So the question i wont to know is would you be bothered with all the hassle to send it back & be with out a PC until they test it & send you another board or as everything works fine using the network card would you stay with that.

Plus if i dont send it back would i be running the risk of other parts of the board not working in the future?

My motherboard is Biostar TSeries TA790GX 128M
Cheers

 

[mrfun1981]

Thanks for the input,

I got the motherboard March this year so there is still plenty of time left on the warranty, i believe its 12 months with a motherboard.

The PC is used all the time so it would be hard to live with out it for a while.

I was hoping the system iv got would last a good 18months before i would consider upgrading & then i would have only maybe upgraded the CPU.

I guess as everything else is working at the moment & there is no rule saying if got to send it back the moment i see a problem im thinking maybe i could leave it a couple of months then send it back as we should have a laptop then, so at least can still access the net etc