PackedFunk,
I never said the question was easy, I said it had been answered many times before. In fact since we have such a well versed membership attempts to make it an easy question usually fail and we have to get into some of the nitty gritty.
I also never made a big deal of it, I simply called into question why you felt the need to discuss it in a completely unrelated thread. Especially since you erroneously positioned it as a failure on the part of D-Link.
Everyone Else,
Did we determine that the thread was on cards that could not get passed POST? If not then new "me too" posts should concern a defective card from factory that prevents booting past POST.
To avoid dropping the OPs problem into the cloudy abyss somewhere, as well as to make your distinct issue more visible, I implore anyone who has a problem that is not 100% identical to an existing thread to post a new thread for their difficulty.
If you feel that you have a related issue then feel free to link people back to your thread, but unless your symptoms are perfectly in sync, posting to a different issue's thread is wasting your time and the OPs.
Personally, I would create a new thread, even if a apparently similar issue had been posted. That way I could make the D-Link mods consider my case apart from the demented ramblings that may be present on just any thread. This is doubly true when you consider the sheer mass of half formulated issues that become hot topics due to "me too" posts before the OP had even clearly communicated his full problem.
Or worst of all are resurrected a month afterwords to present a gripe which has nothing to to with the issue at hand. Which then spawns the unrelated "me too" posts, as the thread is apparently in vogue again. No one in their right mind would think this particular thread is a home of meaningful discourse at this point.