Handy Restitution?

[CityK]

I suppose that this should have been appended onto this thread, or perhaps just as easily in this one. Regardless, while glancing at headlines tonight, I spied this following story: MSI Reaffirms Mainboards' Durability. I instantaneously thought of my own and Doug's misfortune of owning an MSI with bad caps (see links provided above for details). Remotely curious about what PR clap trap MSI was spewing onto the internet, I clicked the link and to my surprise I found this tidbit:

Earlier this year a suit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by Electronic Connection Services Corporation accusing MSI of knowingly using capacitors, devices used to regulate the power supply to microchips, that can leak or even explode and cause mainboards to short-circuit. The suit, which seeks to cover any person or company in the United States who has made a wholesale or retail purchase of an MSI mainboard since 1999, seeks unspecified damages and restitution and other relief. Additionally, the suit put doubts on MSI’s ability to ship durable mainboards.

There you go Doug. Your ship has come in. Given the emotional trauma the event caused (and the months of therapy required just to get you comfortable about being around and then using other computers again), I think (if proven guilty, and we all know the greedy bastids is) MSI owes you at least $1.38M. Don't worry Doug, I've got a foolproof strategy. Surprise witnesses, each more surprising than the last. The judge won't know what hit him.

Actually, the thing I liked best about the X-bits piece was:

Passing the torture test means that the 865PE Neo2 Platinum and 865PE Neo2-V received TÜV "Geprüfte Langzeitstabilität" (Certified Durability) certificate that confirms advanced sturdiness of the mentioned mainboards. The technical control association confirms at the end of complicated computations and high temperature investigations for the second MSI mainboard the increase of the “Mean Time Between Failures” from 19 to 25 years.

Whoow-whoooo! Who knew we had so much to look forward to in the year 2029!

 

[Tea]

Errr .. I'm a little confused. Does this mean that MSI are going to start making reliable mainboards as soon as 2029? That's pretty soon now! It's only .. er ....

(How many years is that Tannin?)

(Sorry?)

Uh. Sorry about that people. Apparently we can't work out how many years it is exactly at the moment. But more than 20. Up to 20 we are fine, but after that we get a little confuzed. I'm not sure why but Tannin says he can't count more than 20 without taking his trousers off.

 

[mubs]

You've been getting mighty naughty lately, little one.

 

[Tea]

Who? Me? Would I .... ? Must have been some other ape. :roll:

 

[Handruin]

Thanks CityK for the good news! I think I still have my MSI board for illustration purposes, so if they need proof, I still have it.

If I get 1.38M, I'll buy us a new server for SF. MSI has caused me great trauma, and that began even before the capacitors gave out.