Major design flaw (ECS i-Buddie A928)

Member Name: davehaddad

Product:	ECS i-Buddie A928
Date:	30/01/06 (565 review reads)
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Advantages: cheap, nice to look at.

Disadvantages: works as good as its price...cheap, has major issues..

I bought the ecs i-buddie a928 a few years back. I at first got it with no hard drive, ram and processor so I could put in what I wanted.

So when I went to actually put in a 30 gig drive, 512mb ram and an amd 1800xp, it would not post, just the fan would go and lights on no lcd screen or bios beep. I battled with ecs to fix it they said it was the way I put the processor in, and I know how to put a processor in. I decided to suck it up and pay to fix it, it took over a year for me to get it back, somehow it was lost, and they failed to return my laptop case I sent it in.

So it's up in running, after a few months it started to reboot, and shut down when it felt like. I reseached the error and found hundreds of people with the same issue. It appears the power cord gets to hot and either melts, the ground wire seperates from the motherboard and a few other issues, of course all these customers tried to get ecs to fix it and they get the same answer, that it is from wear and tear not a defect. The fix is to get another lower gauge ground pin soldered on the motherboard which a lot of people have done for about $150usd.

I have backed up all my data as I am waiting for the day it will never turn back on and am wondering if it is worth the money or just take the drive, processor and ram and cut my losses.

Never by anything from ECS, the support is far from helpful and they just turn there back on there customers. I think someone should start a lawsuit for these desknotes.

Email me if you are intrested maybe we can get something started here.

Dave

Summary: Power cord issues, should sue ECS, and waste of money.

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