Dead 875p board

I have a problem. I have emailed support about it but I thought I would post in here.
I recently bought a Model#: MS6758010 which is the 875P Neo-LSR Retail . I have just installed Windows XP Pro and had it up and running for a few days when the northbridge fan blew up. Sparks came flying out (case open) and I figured out that two of the three lights the northbridge fan has had blew up. So since the system would not boot I begin to look at the chipset for damage and came to the southbridge which has a hole in it. I am not sure how this happened but it happened at the same time when the northbridge blew out and the system went dead. I need advice on what to do. Do you think MSI will honor its product? Should I send it to them or send it back to www.newegg.com where I purchased it?
I hope an MSI representative responds with an answer for me in this thread. Please help.

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Originally posted by ZippyGaloo
Is this an isolated case or is this a problem with all of the motherboards? I'm considering buying this board over the Abit IG-7. Any suggestions? Blowing up isn't on my list of wants with a new 800fsb motherboard.
It looks to be an isolated case as my board has been problem-free. (MSI 875P Neo-FIS2R)
Scott

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I went to the forums of some other board makers and it seems as though all of the 875p boards have some problems. The asus forum is saying not to buy the p4c800 deluxe because they are changing some of the peripherals on it already. The abit board has raid and memory problems, and as a former abit user I can say that it took forever for abit to release a bios that actually allowed the board to work like it should. The gigabyte GA-8KNXP board also has ata, fan, raid, and memory problems.
I'm not sure how often the others are releasing a new bios but I like the way MSI has been working to eliminate the issues with the 875p fis2r.
Just thought you would like to know that if you are thinking of getting rid of this board.

Makes nape look a bit pro msi,right :D
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But MSI was worst that time,starting with that THG (which THG not really discovered without help as some ppl say..)FSB OC thing together with low mem bandwith and bios probs.
If 1.5 keeps what its looking right now we are up the other brands.
I wont say "oh,I never buy a MSI board again",its just some kind of russian roulette,sometimes very brand has it POS.
So if 1.5 really fixed most probs and the other ones hopefully will be fixed soon(manual CAS setting pls) we can say it could have been worse.
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Miriam offers sage advice. Contact Apple at the number provided and firmly yet politely state your case.
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Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x0000000017FCBA10 PC=0x0000000000081F1C
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Exception state (sv=0x2E9CC780)
previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
Exception state (sv=0x2E9CB000)
PC=0x00013110; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x006D55FC; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x0001227C; R1=0x17FC3DA0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
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panic(cpu 0 caller 0xFFFF0003): 0x300 - Data access
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Darwin Kernel Version 8.4.0: Tue Jan 3 18:22:10 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.6.56.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
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