fried mobo

markpne19 · 4 May 2006 at 22:42

got an abit av8 from the clearance section set it up when it came to boot came up error 0.4 checked this and found it might be a memory problem so swapped the memory round rebooted next thing smoke was belching from the board next to the ide cable turned everything off quick any one tell me is it worth sending it back seeing it only cost £20 and would i have to pay for p&p

gtir666 · 4 May 2006 at 23:04

when you say clearance do you mean "B Grade"?

Minstadave · 4 May 2006 at 23:48

gtir666 said:
when you say clearance do you mean "B Grade"?

There's a clearance section aswell as a B grade section.

markpne19 · 5 May 2006 at 07:50

got it from the clearance section new product

pastymuncher · 5 May 2006 at 09:18

If it's a new product then the sales of goods act states that "the consumer should not be financially penalised for the return of faulty goods". In other words you will have to pay the postage but they have to refund you the cost. It's a good idea to always include a receipt for the postage in the package.

gtir666 · 5 May 2006 at 11:08

Minstadave said:
There's a clearance section aswell as a B grade section.

Welldone sherlock

I miss read the first post

ElectroBlaster · 5 May 2006 at 12:49

You should be able to send it back m8, I bought an Hitachi 160gb drive from the clearance section once and they sent me one from B-grade which was a refurbed drive with hardly any warranty left.

Got in contact with ocuk and they sorted it out for me

Minstadave · 5 May 2006 at 15:15

gtir666 said:
Welldone sherlock

I miss read the first post

It was important to know because the warranties are different.

m3csl2004 · 5 May 2006 at 17:55

pastymuncher said:
If it's a new product then the sales of goods act states that "the consumer should not be financially penalised for the return of faulty goods". In other words you will have to pay the postage but they have to refund you the cost. It's a good idea to always include a receipt for the postage in the package.

only problem with that is you women at the till gives you the recipt after you giver her he parcel lol