<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Jeff Thurston <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jthurston@skyline-ats.com">jthurston@skyline-ats.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Check your board POST very carefully. Disable quiet & slow boot.<br>Mine says in White-on-Gray text in the bottom left corner during POST:<br><br>"EVALUATION COPY - NOT FOR SALE."<br><br>I just purchased mine from a reputable store in the SFBay area. After talking to them about it I was advised to register the board with Zotac to ensure any future warranty issues are honoured as well as to get immediate feedback about the warranty status before it is too late to return it to the store.<br>
<br>It's probably just something that was overlooked before the release cycle of the board, but still, I thought others might like to be aware of this since it seems a LOT of people are buying this board. Perhaps there is a BIOS fix for it.<br>
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<br>-Jeff<br><br>
</font></blockquote></div>I should probably mention that 3 of the store locations the vendor in question has, all of their boards in stock (9 total) we like this, so it's not as if I simply had bad luck and someone sold me an engineering sample by accident.<br>
the boards apparently came directly from the manufacturer to the store.<br><br><br>