It would have been even better if you had bought a refurbished board from a well known brand such as Asus/GB/intel etc rather than going with your seller's recommendation and purchasing a chinese product of dubious quality-then hassles like this could have been avoided.But atleast you do have a functional system now and that's got to count for something.Have you experienced any other unusual problems or issues with the board till now?Does it really have the g31 chipset as claimed by your retailer-have you verified that?
I tried few places for refurbished board, I couldn't get one. I waited for about a week, didn't want to delay the purchase anymore, so went ahead and bought this unit.
Yeah, it's working. But I am skeptical about its life.
It boots faster, don't know it's the processor or board. Roughly 15 seconds or less, I reach windows login screen. It was about 30 seconds before, if I remember right.
Problem, sound is not as good as the previous board. Updated all the drivers, still not good. Tried different option in BIOS, still not as good. Video, again not good based on 4k video I tried to play. My previous board with onboard graphic would play slowly, but this just plays audio with blank screen.
Other than the box, there is no other place I can find whether it's G31 or not. As I already said, windows couldn't see manufacturer info. So is the case with CPUZ.
