Re: MSI motherboards are utter garbage

On Fri, 4/10/2026 12:28 PM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
> On 4/10/2026 11:18 AM, Nomen Nescio wrote:
>> I bought an MSI Raptor Lake mobo, as I got a CPU for free.
>> I only used it for a few weeks over 2 years and it wouldn't
>> boot. Remove graphics card, RAM and disk drive, still
>> nothing. Put power supply on tester it is fine.
>> Then find the CMOS battery has only 0,3 volts!
>> Piss weak it goes flat in that time.
>> I have older PCs (Kaby Lake) still going without skipping a beat
>>
> 
> You sure that you started with a 100% new CR2032 battery?
> 
> The motherboard might have been in the shelf for over a year. Or the motherboard might actually a 2nd-hand item resold as a new one.
> 
> All the motherboards I bought are NOT sealed in plastic. There was absolutely no guarantee that they were new.

The MSI have a black tape (not electrical tape), the Asus didn't
have anything this time. They used to have tamper-tape of various sorts.

The MSI ESD bags use the filament pattern inside the bag, while
the Asus have the plain finish ESD bags.

   Paul