Universal abit, one of the leaders in high-end motherboards manufacturing, recently announced that it will recall several new mainboards - the AN9 32X and Fatal1ty AN9 32X - which have some hardware issues, more precisely, a heatsink displacement caused by carelessly shipping of the products.

"After a series of heavy testing programs, our Quality Control test department has found that a small number of units from the early manufacturing of the AN9 32X product line has a hardware issue caused by heatsink component displacement due to accidental rough handling during shipments. This will cause high temperatures and possible overheating. Therefore, Universal abit has chosen to recall those AN9 32X and Fatal1ty AN9 32X motherboards that have been affected by this accident. We wish to stress our Quality control is of the highest standard, and unfortunately accidents happen, and the moment we found out about the possibly damaged components being part of the line we have issued this callback. Please make sure that if your motherboard is within this consignment that you return it to be evaluated," said the company.

Furthermore, the shipping costs will be fully-covered by Universal abit and its world-wide branch offices.

Units with the following serial numbers will be recalled :

Fatal1ty AN9 32X:
FAN93UDC000001 ~ FAN93UDC002713
FAN93UDD000001 ~ FAN93UDD001648

AN9 32X:
AN932UDC000001 ~ AN932UDC001407
AN932UDD000001 ~ AN932UDD001000

Units with the following serial numbers are certified problem free and will not be recalled:

Fatal1ty AN9 32X:
FAN93UDC002714 ~ FAN93UDC005422

AN9 32X:
AN932UDC001408 ~ AN932UDC002612