Update to a previous post- order #22772. Rick from SMT recently contacted a few of us who posted our problems in this forum. I appreciated this. He asked to send him a brief statement regarding my missing chip directly to his SMT email address, which I have done. He said that I'd need to fill out their RMA form for my broken ground board. HOWEVER, their page still reads "Sorry, RMA's are closed until the end of the year." They say it may take 48 hours to reply to a message... 48 hours is almost up for the message I sent directly to Rick.
**Here's a theory of mine- They didn't have enough X2.3 chips to fill all of the placed orders, but they still wanted the money from these orders to add to their sales total for 2003. Solution- ship partial orders, so that some product is received by the customer and try to straighten the missing chip problems out in the new year.**
Still waiting for something that was paid for half a month ago.......