I have already filed complaints. The one thing they are not doing is bluffing, because this does not just concern my machine, it concerns every machine shipped with one of the affected Gigabyte motherboards, thus the cost would be considerable for them. If there are 100 machines like mine involved the base number for refunds would be $150.000.00, which would not cover shipping and repair cost, the logistics of returning machines that ship all over the USA and farther I am sure are a serious issue here, they might have sold 1000 or ten times that during the Christmas rush, who knows. That said, and I do have an issue with this manufacturer, which is separate from the issue with Gigabyte, because the F7 bios did exactly what no bios or hardware update should ever do, which is reduce the functionality of the hardware involved. The F7 bios from what I have read on the internet, and from my personal experience is responsible for turning off the smart 6 software which results in a computer that will not catch fire due to poor quality Chinese components, because it can no longer be used as it was intended to be used. If the smart 6 software was not intended to be used, or adjust the frequency as it says it will do after a restart, then it should not be there in the first place, and since it is, there is either a hardware failure involved, or con artist are involved in producing fake overclocking hardware and software. Obviously hardware fails, and that seems to be the likely situation here, though not so often this badly or within the warrantee period. Which is why if I had bought the HP that was my second choice, I would not have a quasi experimental 2011 slot, that may not be ready for prime time yet, but was sold none-the-less to unsuspecting consumers, many of whom if they ran the smart 6 software as it is would not even be able to run a cpu diagnostic, or manually check the bios clock and thus would be fully conned into thinking they had an overclocked machine. This is sad.
