I bought a second-hand MSI MS-7021 motherboard from PALM54 on 20 July. When installed it in August, the board's performance soon became erratic and degenerated rapidly. After an accumulation of perhaps 3-6 hours of operation, its only remaining sign of life was a sequence of 8 beeps from its ROM-BIOS, a low-level error code that indicates a video interface failure.
I logged the subsequent exchanges with PALM54, but I won't ask anyone to waste time reading them. He indulged himself with incivility that I in no way provoked. He also accused me of installing bad parts or damaging the board myself. The parts in question are in the machine I'm using to write this note, and in nearly 40 years as an electrical engineer, I haven't zapped a board.
The complaint from "Stacy" in another entry about this guy is entirely credible.
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