tsunami231:

.....deteced in December of last year? they are just now doing the recall, hate to be one those people that had the board fail.

Yes indeed this Hero MB production fault has actually been going on since December of 2021. Now in the final days of the Asus Z690 generation an official recall? Bad timing and being reminded again of a bad Asus QC situation. Whatever the issue, it will make people now think twice in buying or reaching out for any new flagship or premium ASUS MB. I would suspect that a Hero Z790 MB (chipset) will easily be listing for around $850 plus! Not exactly a small piece of change in the prevailing economic conditions and especially for a non-essential purchase. Of course wishful thinking has me hankering for new generation system build. But with all of the new speedier DDR5 availabilities, vastly quicker NVME’s, significant chipset improvements, new 40-gen GPU’s with a touted 30% or more performance increase and a PSU upgrade requirement, I might as well need to win the lottery! Based on the yet to be announced new cooling requirements, I might be forced to replace my existing enclosure, all new case fans and my 5-year old AIO as well. No rest for the weary!

Tom Sunday:

Yes indeed this Hero MB production fault has actually been going on since December of 2021. Now in the final days of the Asus Z690 generation an official recall? Bad timing and being reminded again of a bad Asus QC situation. Whatever the issue, it will make people now think twice in buying or reaching out for any new flagship or premium ASUS MB. I would suspect that a Hero Z790 MB (chipset) will easily be listing for around $850 plus! Not exactly a small piece of change in the prevailing economic conditions and especially for a non-essential purchase. Of course wishful thinking has me hankering for new generation system build. But with all of the new speedier DDR5 availabilities, vastly quicker NVME’s, significant chipset improvements, new 40-gen GPU’s with a touted 30% or more performance increase and a PSU upgrade requirement, I might as well need to win the lottery! Based on the yet to be announced new cooling requirements, I might be forced to replace my existing enclosure, all new case fans and my 5-year old AIO as well. No rest for the weary!

Considering price MB these days i find this all unacceptable, it good thing i not in market for new cpu or mb anytime soon

I don't even know how this passed quality control/testing. I've seen a video on How it's made and with complex 6 layered mobos all the components are fitted by robots. As it moves along the line different parts are added then it's flowed until it reaches a testing station once all parts are added. The mobos are then vigorously tested in a machine that has hundreds of pins that make contact with all the mobos rear solders. They check every single port, temps and bios before it gets a green light and then put into a anti-static bag before being boxed. Surely a reversed Cap would show up on such tests so that probably means there was 2 mistakes one in production and one in testing. I'm no electrician but i know my way around a multimeter and a soldering iron and this would show up on that multimeter if you knew where to place it.

Reddoguk:

I don't even know how this passed quality control/testing. I've seen a video on How it's made and with complex 6 layered mobos all the components are fitted by robots. As it moves along the line different parts are added then it's flowed until it reaches a testing station once all parts are added. The mobos are then vigorously tested in a machine that has hundreds of pins that make contact with all the mobos rear solders. They check every single port, temps and bios before it gets a green light and then put into a anti-static bag before being boxed. Surely a reversed Cap would show up on such tests so that probably means there was 2 mistakes one in production and one in testing. I'm no electrician but i know my way around a multimeter and a soldering iron and this would show up on that multimeter if you knew where to place it.

I also wonder about this aspect. Is perfectly normal for someone to mess up things, it happens to everyone, no matter how good we may be at our work. But the fact that quality control didn`t catch this is simply unbelievable! The only possible explanation is that ASUS no longer has a QC department... And it pains me to think like this because i`m a fan of their boards.