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More info?)
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:24:59 GMT, "Travis Jordan" <no.one@no.net> wrote:
The warranty is pretty complex. I might be able to get my old mainboard repair.
BTW, can you tell me whether my ATI video or six months old Gigabyte board is
bad, when I bootup in resolution or 256 color fuzzy. I had swapped the monitor
and still the same.
Thanks
>Dave Smith wrote:
>> Is it 12 month?
>
>Manufacturer Warranty:
>
>Gigabyte offers a three year limited warranty to purchasers of Gigabyte
>Motherboards and Graphics Accelerators, starting from the date of
>production January 01, 2001. (A one year limited warranty still applies
>to the date of production prior to January 01, 2001.) For the 1st and
>2nd year : free labor cost +
>free component replacement
>For the 3rd year : charge labor cost (US$10) + charge for component
>replacement . For consecutive violation of NTF (No Trouble Found) Rate
>higher than 30% , a charge of USD$10 testing fee per NTF board will be
>invoiced to customer
>
>Manufacturer RMA Policy:
>
>Warranty (Repair) Service will not be provided , if the following
>conditions apply:
>1. If the broken wire on the PCB exceeds a total of 4.
>2. Screw hole , Burn-out.
>3. Damage due to Improper packaging / handling.
>4. 5V-GND Short ( Warranty is 13 weeks ).
>3V-GND Short ( Warranty is one year ).
>5. Chips burn-out.
>6. Extreme Environmental conditions causing oxidization of pares chipset
>which exceeds 1cm or puncture through hole copper.
>7. Over 4 BGA pads have become detached after 1 year.
>8. Any repair work performed by non-Gigabyte engineers on GBT boards.
>
>**Remark 1 : for the defects excluded from the above conditions,
>Gigabyte will still make the great effort on repair service**
>**Remark 2 : above conditions do not include phase-out parts**
>