abit to shut down altogether

[gilgamesh]

ABIT as a company is due to cease trading

I have it on good authority that abit will cease trading I.E the company will no longer exist.

They shut down their motherboard business in order to concentrate on producing photo-frame
printers. However I have it on good authority that they are shutting down everything. The Photo frames will not be produced.

This leaves the nagging question about motherboard warranties?

gilgamesh

[chuckskull]

Gutted

[Bios]

sorry to see them go, had some great Abit boards

[adder]

Could happen, seems recently has been very lack of things.

[mac124]

Shame, all my current pc's have Abit mobo's

[adder]

Shame, all my current pc's have Abit mobo's

Am sure the warranty period will be covered, if not from them, then the place you purchased from.

Where did you buy it from?

[Saracen]

Am sure the warranty period will be covered, if not from them, then the place you purchased from.

Kind of, but not really.

If the company has gone, the chances of getting warranty cover from the company is, as far as I can tell, zero.

As for the seller, yeah, maybe.

You certainly have whatever statutory rights you have against the seller, assuming they haven't gone too, which in the current economic climate is always a possibility, and it has to be a bigger possibility than it was a couple of years ago, or even 6 months ago.

The statutory rights exist as long as the retailer is in business, but the extent of the coverage you get may well not match the warranty provisions. Some sellers do also offer their own in-house warranty, and if they do, then they can be held to it. But they aren't obliged to offer it.

Bear in mind that for those statutory provisions, you can hold then to the standards imposed by, for instance, the Sale of Goods Act, but after a pretty brief (a weeks at most, in most circumstances) period, that will only cover you if the item isn't fit for purpose or wasn't "as described" (which you'd likely know about fairly quickly), or if it develops a fault. But that fault must be one that was inherent at the time of sale. That it, as a result of poor design, poor workmanship or poor component quality, etc. The tricky bit is that after 6 months, it's for you, the consumer, to prove that it was inherent at the time of sale, or you aren't covered.

So if, for example, a motherboard packs up, if you've had it more than 6 months, you'd have to prove that the reason it packed up was something that existed when you bought it, and wasn't as a result of poor installation, or a faulty power supply, or careless regard to anti-static precautions when you worked on it, or a mains surge, or ..... etc.

Your statutory rights certainly give you some cover, but depending on the warranty, your rights might well be a LOT less versatile than the warranty.

For example, my washing machine came with a 10 year parts warranty (cost me £10, IIRC, from the manufacturer). It packed up a few months back, and all I paid was a fixed labour charge (£70, IIRC). It took them three visits, but they ended up replacing the drum, bearings, motor, some of the mounts, a couple of hoses and the door seal. As it was about 8 years old at that point, I'd have got nothing from my statutory rights, and nothing from anyone if the manufacturer had gone out of business.

I don't think Abit warranty is anything like that good, but nonetheless, if they cease trading, you'll lose any extra cover it might have offered you, unless it was underwritten by someone else.

[format]

R.I.P Abit

[GoNz0]

with scans attitude to warranty's you wont get anything from them if it does happen.

shame really, what i cant understand is people buying there boards when they have stopped producing them and then asking where bios updates etc are.

[jh11]

OMG this is bad news, i loved the ip35 pro.

[BUFF]

This leaves the nagging question about motherboard warranties?

possibly via USI?
seems to be what happened in the US when they shut abit USA - warranty dept. seems to have transferred to an USI facility.

[Cornholio]

My HTPC is running an abit mobo that i bought from scan, guess im fecked !

[LuckyNV]

running at Abit IP35-pro :\

although I have an internet PC still running an Abit NF7-S that was part of my main PC many year ago

[floppybootstomp]

How odd, I've just thrown an Abit KT7 RAID board in the bin, twas the first decent motherboard I ever bought.

As I recall, Abit kinda lost the plot some years ago when one or more of their team jumped ship and founded DFI.

Only boards I consider these days are DFI, Asus & Gigabyte.

Still a shame to see them go though.

[SammEl]

Hold on, if so many people are in love with Abit, how come they are stopping? Money problems, or choice?

Got an Abit here and I love it to bits, warranty has ran out as it's only 1 year? Shame.

[BUFF]

choice, they couldn't make the margin that their parent company wanted.
Looking at the reports of Asus, Foxconn etc. at the moment they are probably congratulating themselves for doing it when they did.

abit warranty is 2 years in Europe & 3 years in the USA.