Good-By to ATI Junk

[DaveL]

Nvidia does not sell boards like ATI does. They only design and sell the
chips.

DaveL

 

[DaveL]

I've just sent my fourth AIW9800 back for warranty replacement since
Dec. 04, no requirement for SSN here.

4 defective cards in 4 months is not much of an endorsement, but they
do keep trying. I just get an RMA # from the web site and send them
off, don't bother with a long distance phone call just to get the long
delays and reinstall driver advice.

Four defective cards in four months? How is that possible? You gotta be
doing something wrong or your system has compatibility issues.

DaveL

 

[J. Clarke]

Nvidia does not sell boards like ATI does. They only design and sell the
chips.

Your point being?

 

[G Down]

If you ask ATI to send a board before you return the defective
board, they ask for a credit card and SSN. The reason that I got
from them was a vague response that U.S. Government required the SSN
before you can import it, which is nonsense. If you buy from a
company in the U.S., even if it is made out of the country, you
don't have that problem. ATI and nVidia have decent chipsets, you
just have to buy from companies that have good warranties (~3y-ears)
and U.S. sales/service facilities, e.g., ASUS, et al.
--

 

[Minotaur]

*8D

 

[Minotaur]

Anthony L. Rondon wrote:




You really think it's that hard to find out someone's social security number
given their name, address, and phone number?

You have just answered the question, why there is no need to give them
you're Social Security #.

Why the debate? or is it more about the bate?

 

[J. Clarke]

You have just answered the question, why there is no need to give them
you're Social Security #.

Why the debate? or is it more about the bate?

Now let's see, given your phone number they should with a bit of detective
work be able to find out your name and address, so by your reasoning if
they have your phone number from the caller ID they don't really _need_ to
ask your name or address either.

Why should they be required to _need_ a piece of information in order to ask
for it?

 

[BuddyWh]

They have no legal right to ask for your social insurance number.
Report them to the authorities.

I wonder if he got sucked into a phishing scam...

 

[John Lewis]

I've just sent my fourth AIW9800 back for warranty replacement since
Dec. 04, no requirement for SSN here.

4 defective cards in 4 months is not much of an endorsement, but they
do keep trying. I just get an RMA # from the web site and send them
off, don't bother with a long distance phone call just to get the long
delays and reinstall driver advice.

Try cooling the card a bit better next time; do not put any card
in the PCI slot immediately adjacent to the AGP slot - it will
heat-suffocate the GPU.............. Check that there is adequate
airflow past the video card ---- essential, since the built-in
(er) "cooling-solution" leaves a lot to be desired.

John Lewis