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"TeleDale" <teledale@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20050104132034.06125.00001887@mb-m23.aol.com...
>I bought a new Soyo motherboard around 4 years ago, and I had written to
>the
> company quite a few times with questions regarding the types of memory
> acceptable and other setup questions. I never heard back from anyone, no
> replies by email, fax or phone..
> About a year later (the motherboard was then one year old), the onboard
> sound
> died, and I couldn't get it to work again.
> I got rid of this motherboard and replaced it with a good used one from a
> different computer. I've never purchased a motherboard since, and if I
> had to,
> I would not get another Soyo. I would also stay away from anything from
> IBM. I
> had a new IBM hard drive, and when I had swapped motherboards, I had a
> lot of
> difficulty in setting up the hard drive again. I called IBM technical
> support,
> spoke to the guy and told him that I would send a fax with all of the
> specific
> details. I did that and never heard back from anyone. This incident
> occured 3
> years ago, and I had faxed and refaxed and refaxed the stuff about 15
> times.
> IBM did not contact me- no emails, faxes, phone calls, nothing.
> I don't know who you can trust these days.
> Dale
>
> TeleDale Key Service,
>
http://www.angelfire.com/wizard/teledale
> 1811 Saratoga Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44109 U.S.A.
My experience with Soyo motherboards parallels that of Dale's. After
problems with two of their MBs I'm hesitant to purchase another Soyo MB. To
be sure I haven't had any substantial experience with their MBs other than
the two I had problems with, but it leaves me with an uneasy feeling about
the quality of their boards in general. I also found the company quite
unresponsive to my pleas for support.
I might also add that there have been a substantial number of complaints
from consumers over Soyo's failure to honor rebates. It doesn't speak well
of the company.
Art