ECS L4S8A (SiS 648): Value P4 Performance
by Evan Lieb on November 11, 2002 2:57 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
ECS L4S8A: Tech Support and RMA
For your reference, we will repost our tech support evaluation procedure here:
The way our Tech Support evaluation works is first we anonymously email the manufacturer's tech support address(es), obviously not using our AnandTech mail server to avoid any sort of preferential treatment. Our emails (we can and will send more than one just to make sure we're not getting the staff on an "off" day) all contain fixable problems that we've had with our motherboard. We then give the manufacturer up to 72 hours to respond over business days and will report not only whether they even responded within the time allotted but also if they were successful in fixing our problems. If we do eventually receive a response after the review is published, we will go back and amend the review with the total time it took for the manufacturer to respond to our requests.
The idea here is to encourage manufacturers to improve their technical support as well as provide new criteria to base your motherboard purchasing decisions upon; with motherboards looking more and more alike every day, we have to help separate the boys from the men in as many ways as possible. As usual, we're interested in your feedback on this and other parts of our reviews so please do email us with your comments.
ECS's tech support was fairly good; After sending off our email to ECS's tech
support team, we received a response from their them in just 40 hours flat.
This is an excellent response time. We were pleased to see they were helpful
in diagnosing our problem too, and in general they provided lots of different
phone numbers and email addresses for us to contact them at if we had any other
tech support questions. This type of information can be very helpful.
ECS's RMA policy and warranty are listed below; their motherboards are covered by a relatively standard 1-year warranty. Note that boards from Intel and VIA often carry 3 - 5 year warranty periods whereas most other manufacturers offer only 1 year coverage.
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ECS's RMA policy is fairly good compared to other motherboard manufacturers,
especially larger ones. However the biggest downside is that you are only allowed
to RMA a board if you purchase directly from ECS; if you buy through any other
vendors or any other channels you are left to deal with them in order to resolve
RMA issues.
Their RMA form asks for the usual amount of information, such as personal info, system specifications, etc.
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