Ah okay, this is the first time I've heard of Newegg xD looked it up and they're available in Australia too, but think it's overseas shipping and whatnot.
My build is basically exactly the same as my partner's so was just expecting it to work, straight away, like his did, but noooo, miiiine has to have problems XD
That sucks about the motherboard! I was fretting that mine was busted too, but it seems that it's likely a power supply issue instead, which I hope. Heard so many horror stories about DOA motherboards killing everything attached to it. Pretty sure there are safeguards in place these days for more modern ones, but, still, the paranoia is there.
Glad you got yours all up and running and ready to roll!!
Where I live it's pretty much Newegg or nothing xD. When I ordered the MOBO it was two months before I actually built my PC and it just so happened the day I built my PC and found out the MOBO was missing some CPU socket pins, it was the day after the return policy ended.
I threatened to go to the BBB on them and they replaced it, after saying that they wouldn't at first. But I mentioned the fact that they were caught recently shipping damaged MOBO's so I think that changed their mind.
It's really odd though yours had problem if it didn't with your partners PC. But what can we do? It's life, eh?