Felix Miata wrote:
On 2007/09/02 07:51 (GMT-0400) Eberhard Roloff apparently typed:
BandiPat wrote:
You take your chances with anything ASUS teaming it up with Linux. There are better choices.
if you don not mind, could you kindly name them?
The real point is that ASUS support staff is openly hostile to Linux users who require and attempt to get support (e.g., RMA for defective product) from ASUS. So, the choices are all others until such time as it gets documented which if any of the others take a similar attitude to ASUS. http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux04/Asus_Sucks_Story-01.html
My most recent success with motherboard tech support was with Biostar. I purchased a several years old M7NCD http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=m7ncd new in box from an online vendor last fall. 7 months later it died as a consequence of a power supply failure. I emailed tech support. They emailed me an RMA authorization back. No stupid questions about what OS was installed. Board was replaced with new in box complete with manual and accessories M7NCD Ultra http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=M7NCD%20ULTRA . This system using this board has about 8 operating systems installed, including 10.2 and 10.3Beta2.
ASUS' stupid web site is reason enough to avoid ASUS. I just tried to get a BIOS update there yesterday. Finding the P5A-B BIOS was easy, but finding on site the required update tool to install it was impossible. I was lucky enough to guess one I already downloaded for a P5S-B many years ago would be compatible.
Well I feel unable to comment on that, since I always refer to my vendor, when my hardware fails, which I never experienced with Asus. ;-(. However I must say, that for years now, I am used to choose either Asus (NEVER Laptops, just MoBos!) or Gigabyte as default brands, because I never had trouble with these (under DOS/Win/OS2/Linux...) in regard to Bios update availability, support (via vendor), performance and anything else I can think of. Maybe I just stick with them for reasons of traditition, but I will happily do so until I will have reason to act differently. regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org