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ASUS support product damage accusations

Woomack
Level 7
This is not the first time I have a situation like this with ASUS support, but this time it's too much ... and what's more, I have no idea what to do with that.

Today I received info from the support that ASUS rejected my RMA because I damaged pins in the socket. Below is a photo of the "damaged socket" that I took before shipping the motherboard to RMA. I take photos of all ASUS products before RMA as I had similar problems in the past.

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This is Strix Z690-I Gaming WIFI, so not cheap motherboard. RMA was because the motherboard is crashing in every stability test, RAM, CPU, FPU, mixed tests, anything randomly. If the socket is somehow damaged then it's not visible and the problem had to be in the product as I wasn't using it for longer.

Some months ago, I sent Crosshair VIII Impact to RMA because it wasn't stable with higher wattage CPUs. Support told me I damaged the PCB when there was a little scratch on the hidden part of the audio module's PCB (it's a M.2 type card). The module was never removed but support still made me pay for the repair. The scratch was 1mm long and the trace wasn't even damaged. Not to mention what CPU stability has to do with add-on audio module? It was 100% stable with 5700G but not with 5900X.

I will only add that I buy ASUS motherboards for hardware tests/reviews as my contacts don't include ASUS, so I can't get review samples of this brand. In short, I'm using ASUS and somehow promote this brand in various reviews and as a reward I lose my money. Sounds pretty stupid that I do that for longer years but I always thought that ASUS is the best brand for my needs. Recently I got 2 faulty ASUS Apex motherboards, 2 failed RMA and some more problems.
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DragDay7
Level 9
It's just us being stupid, thinking "this time everything will be fine". My first Z97 Asus board - 3 months of RMA rejections, claming the board is fine. After finally having replacement everything started to work properly - their respond? Nothing, I've wasted 3 months proving them wrong and not a single apology. Now, after waiting 3 weeks for my Z690 board to be back and fixed, they've done nothing about it - they found no issue, didn't tried to contact me or anything. Yet, there are numerous cases just as mine and all it took everyone is to get motherboard replacement. But not me, no - I have to prove again that all my other parts are fine. This is so wrong - I'm tired of it - I'll never again buy or suggest Asus brand. I'm disappointed as hell.

I've learned my lesson and I hope you did too, buddy. I hope you get your issue resolved - it looks really shady. Good luck and take care.

By the way, good job for having that photo - great habit. Without it you'd be doomed.

xeromist
Moderator
Hi Woomack,

If you want to escalate this issue please start a thread in the Service Inquiries section of the forum. Make sure to read the sticky thread for that section before posting. That's the place where you can get HQ staff to take a second look at an RMA gone awry.

https://rog.asus.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?295
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Braegnok
Level 14
Woomack wrote:
This is not the first time I have a situation like this with ASUS support, but this time it's too much ... and what's more, I have no idea what to do with that.

Today I received info from the support that ASUS rejected my RMA because I damaged pins in the socket. Below is a photo of the "damaged socket" that I took before shipping the motherboard to RMA. I take photos of all ASUS products before RMA as I had similar problems in the past.

This is Strix Z690-I Gaming WIFI, so not cheap motherboard. RMA was because the motherboard is crashing in every stability test, RAM, CPU, FPU, mixed tests, anything randomly. If the socket is somehow damaged then it's not visible and the problem had to be in the product as I wasn't using it for longer.

Some months ago, I sent Crosshair VIII Impact to RMA because it wasn't stable with higher wattage CPUs. Support told me I damaged the PCB when there was a little scratch on the hidden part of the audio module's PCB (it's a M.2 type card). The module was never removed but support still made me pay for the repair. The scratch was 1mm long and the trace wasn't even damaged. Not to mention what CPU stability has to do with add-on audio module? It was 100% stable with 5700G but not with 5900X.

I will only add that I buy ASUS motherboards for hardware tests/reviews as my contacts don't include ASUS, so I can't get review samples of this brand. In short, I'm using ASUS and somehow promote this brand in various reviews and as a reward I lose my money. Sounds pretty stupid that I do that for longer years but I always thought that ASUS is the best brand for my needs. Recently I got 2 faulty ASUS Apex motherboards, 2 failed RMA and some more problems.


I just had an interesting, unexpected RMA experience with the same motherboard.

Everything worked fine on the bench, during testing for three weeks. I swapped out the CPU and system would not post, or boot into BIOS.

I sent motherboard into Asus RMA, and was informed the warranty was void due to CID.

They sent me a photo of the backside of my motherboard, claiming solder damage,.. CID.

That is crazy, I never expected that response,.. the solder in photo is the connection for the PCIe X16 slot @ bottom edge of motherboard.

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Needless to say I refused to pay the $479.00 to fix the motherboard, told them to just ship it back.
Intel 14900KF ~ Asus MZ790A ~ 48GB DDR5 ~ RTX 3090 FE ~ Crucial T700 SSD ~ SeaSonic TX-1600 ~ Praxis WetBench ~ Full Custom Water.

xeromist wrote:
Hi Woomack,

If you want to escalate this issue please start a thread in the Service Inquiries section of the forum. Make sure to read the sticky thread for that section before posting. That's the place where you can get HQ staff to take a second look at an RMA gone awry.

https://rog.asus.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?295


Thanks, I noticed I can move it myself so I already did it.


Braegnok wrote:
I just had an interesting, unexpected RMA experience with the same motherboard.

Everything worked fine on the bench, during testing for three weeks. I swapped out the CPU and system would not post, or boot into BIOS.

I sent motherboard into Asus RMA, and was informed the warranty was void due to CID.

They sent me a photo of the backside of my motherboard, claiming solder damage,.. CID.

That is crazy, I never expected that response,.. just so wrong in every way.

Needless to say I refused to pay the $479.00 to fix the motherboard, told them to just ship it back.


I accepted to repair the CHVIII Impact as they wanted ~$40, and I have no idea what they did as all I saw was a 1mm of paint covering the spot where on the photos from support was a scratch (I haven't seen that or couldn't even see the mentioned scratch before the RMA).

RMA report for the Strix Z690I Gaming included barely any info but the mentioned CID was there too and some ID number. There was no offer to repair it.

The motherboard will be back from RMA today but I already saw everything on the RMA report from the store. I live in Poland so the support is in Czech Rep. while the previous RMA was going through German ASUS support. Anyway, I may post some more later, depending on what will arrive with the motherboard.

Braegnok
Level 14
@Woomack: Good luck with your RMA. 🙂

It's difficult to see a scratch, or other types mentioned CID without a jewelers loop & bright light.

Personally, as of today every Asus motherboard I buy,.. I will inspect front and back with an 80X jewelers loop.

I will be looking for the slightest thing suspicious, or something that could be perceived as CID down the road and blamed on me,.. I will return every motherboard same day I receive it,.. till I get a 100% perfect board from now on.

I have never inspected new motherboards in the past, and I have never had any issues,.. this was my first RMA experience.
Intel 14900KF ~ Asus MZ790A ~ 48GB DDR5 ~ RTX 3090 FE ~ Crucial T700 SSD ~ SeaSonic TX-1600 ~ Praxis WetBench ~ Full Custom Water.

Woomack
Level 7
The motherboard arrived:

ASUS RMA number - CZA1N43227

There is info that "customer decides not to repair due to hardware issue" - I got no info at all so couldn't decide.

socket after the mobo back from RMA - today, May 10.

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Here is again one of the photos from 12th April - taken before shipping the motherboard to support:
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Braegnok wrote:
@Woomack: Good luck with your RMA. 🙂

Personally I am done with Asus. Going forward I will no longer buy, sell, or repair Asus motherboards in my shop.



For years I work in distribution, support, and I'm reviewing products of various brands. I've never had problems with other brands like I have with ASUS. I don't even want to start with the quality of Z690 motherboards - Hero, I skipped it after the issue with turned around caps. Two Apex mobos - both couldn't run stable with RAM at more than 6000 because of production issues, I have returned both and got money back, but the same did many other users. Recently I heard that ASUS is replacing faulty Apex mobos and the new production doesn't have the design flaws. I left with the Strix Z690I Gaming and I noticed it's not stable, made RMA and support says I lost warranty. As I said, it's not the first time that ASUS support does that to me and how in a situation like this can I defend myself?

DragDay7
Level 9
Can you mark the damage, please? I can't see it.

DragDay7 wrote:
Can you mark the damage, please? I can't see it.


That's the point.

Maybe they mean this:

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On the close-up, 2-3 pins seem not 100% in line, but it's visible only from a specific angle. However, it's not on the photo from the 12th April where all pins are perfectly in line. How can I be sure it's really my fault and not something that happened on the way to support (or in the support). It was also passing the store support (in Poland everything goes to stores and they send to the manufacturer's support). The store says they only repacked it and sent it to ASUS.

Another thing is that since I bought the motherboard, I installed there one CPU and I wasn't moving it until about April when problems appeared. Then I checked other CPUs but the result was the same. Even if there is anything with pins then I'm not sure if it's related to the problems I had before. Looks like support found something and didn't even care to check anything else.

The original problem was that the motherboard loses stability after about 1-2h of high load. So it's not like it doesn't work at all and if there was a clear issue with the CPU or the socket, then it would generate errors much faster. The problem is repeatable.

DragDay7
Level 9
Oh mate I'm afraid I can see it on your first photo:

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Have you tried bend them back in position?

Edit: I've removed my other posts cause thread was moved to section where only OP is allowed to write posts. Will remove this too after a while.