Who's M1330 Mobo did I get? / aka tale of the Refurb...

All right, which one you peeps can't figure out how to plug a simple IEEE 1394 male connector into the M1330's respective, er, female port???

"Wtf's he goin' on about", you casually ask yourself? Well, I'm talking about that refurbished mobo I got, thanks to a recent GPU meltdown...

After a lot of praying (...an' I ain't even of da religious kind) followed by a lot of testing (and a ton of pics ), the referb had a messed-up 1394 port (no, not Firewire, this ain't no Apple product, you followin' me, Mr.? )

Seriously, for those of you who were wondering if refurbished parts are acceptable or not, well my answer is ...it's a damned risky proposition. Without taking in any other considerations, I'm betting that the Q&A is no where nearly as controlled as it is when it leaves the orginal assembly line.

Someone, somewhere, in some back office is tearing out a mobo from a returned Notebook that had, say, a scratched bezel and probably arbitrarily checks that 50% of the mobo's features function properly...

So here's hoping you've messed up your iPod just as royally!!!
J/K. Or mabye not. Let me sleep on it... (lol).

P.S. For all of you wondering how radically better an A04-revision mobo is, just take a look at the pics, which shows that they simply slapped an A04 label over the original label... my guess is that an A01 can be easily upgraded to an A04 by changing a couple of transistors, resistors, caps or whatever else [was thought to] help subside that dreaded CPU whine...

 

wow dude...

 

Hey, I was just kidding about your iPod, may it work for another thousand years

 

I don't think i would accept a refurb motherboard. When the tech was booked in i would make it known that i wanted new parts to be used.

I have read of some people getting upgraded to the Penryn processors because of their troubles.

 

I'll be frank, when you started to bastardise the English language with American graffitti I stopped reading. But whatever you said, I'm sorry to hear that... or, congratulations. Whichever the case may be.

It is certainly alarming what passes for a quality product from Dell's perpetuating House Of Horrors.

If it's true that 'you get what you pay for', you do begin to ask yourself... 'what exactly am I paying for?!' The components are cheap, the chassis is cheap and the service is cheap/foreign. I mean... they appear to cut so many corners it's a small wonder the notebooks don't arrive circular.

 

It states in their terms of agreement that you agreed to at the time of purchase that replacement parts may be new or refurbished.