[mythtv-users] Zotac IONITX-C Warning to all current and future owners of this board

[Jeff Thurston]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Jeff Thurston <jthurston at skyline-ats.com>wrote:

> Check your board POST very carefully. Disable quiet & slow boot.
> Mine says in White-on-Gray text in the bottom left corner during POST:
>
> "EVALUATION COPY - NOT FOR SALE."
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> -Jeff
>
> 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.
the boards apparently came directly from the manufacturer to the store.
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