QOTW: Has your motherboard ever failed?

[Tabbykatze]

I have only ever had one DoA board, discounting server motherboards in work, I have never had one fail actively.

The DoA board was an Asus m5a78l-m/usb3, wouldn't post or power on but Scan happily replaced it and the next one was perfect and I used right up until replacing with a PileDriver system.

[EasterEEL]

Back in the day the legendary Abit BH6 all good until they released an bios upgrade "FU" and it did; one dead motherboard after flashing.

Not had much luck with Gigabyte one failing motherboard after a couple of years (started with sound card then NIC). My worse failure was a Gigabyte GTX-1080 ti which failed two weeks out of warranty and Gigabyte told me to do one as no spare parts (despite the £50 out of warranty repair service they supposedly offer). Not buying their hardware any more.

Never had a problem with MSI or Asus motherboards and I've sold plenty on to friends/family that are still going with Windows 7 etc.

[QuorTek]

yes but that was in the days, where you actually had to move jumpers and such manually... and actually needed a little personal expertise setting your stuff up, today its all software unlike back then.

[Millennium]

I remember when I was trying to spec new nforce 2 mobos for desktops for a startup. I had just personally bought a MSI one and it worked pretty well, I decided to try and go safe with Asus Nforce2 boards for work, neither board was working with a production CPU, BIOS problems galore, updated bios where possible but even the Asus release bioses on their homepage really didn't work at all, was a major fail, was tasked with workstations for founder level employees, just no joy at all. Haven't bought anything at all Asus since. Should have gone MSI lol

[Andi-C]

No, only failure I've had is from shipping.

[vicar]

Went through about 3 Supermicro H8DCE, eventually found out it was very picky about the power supply unit .