If I could give ZERO I would!
Purchased a motherboard via NewEgg from Ascendtech. Waited for it, it came, I drove it to the tech holding my laptop for 3 weeks, they installed it and the motherboard had a BIOS PASSWORD ON IT. Called Ascendtech, Inc. and was told they get boards in "bulk" and had no idea the BIOS was password protected. Had to drive 40 minutes to pick up the board and send it back to Ascendtech - received full refund but all this installation, removal, etc. cost me LABOR with the tech place. I am into a 10 year old gaming laptop for over $650 now. I needed to repair this system because it was running RAID STRIPPED ARRAY and I did not back up the system before it crashed in mid-JUNE! WHO SELLS A MOTHERBOARD THAT HAS A PASSWORD ON THE BIOS???? I've never had an issue with NewEgg but Ascendtech is one of their sellers and I will NEVER, EVER USE ASCENDTECH AGAIN! This nonsense cost me hours of labor! I could have bought a new system for $650+ (I buy only gaming machines because of the software I use) and Ascendtech cost me extra weeks and LABOR HOURS because of a password. WHO PASSWORD PROTECTS THEIR BIOS AND THEN SELLS A MOTHERBOARD TO SOMEONE????