Am Dienstag, 28. März 2006 02:17 schrieb Michael W Cocke:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:17:24 +0000, you wrote:
Wow - ASUS bottom of the list for everyone. That's a shame since they win so many awards for the quality of components etc.
I truly don't understand why everyone whines about Asus main boards so much - I haven't used anything but Asus boards in years - I have over a dozen of them at home running various versions of SuSE currently, previously Redhat, Gentoo, and Mandrake. All the on board peripherals work well with very minimum fiddling - usually none. Several of the systems are configured very oddly - 2 PCI IDE controllers in addition to the onboards, for example - all fully loaded. Whoever said rsync was good for a backup doesn't know from 5.6 Tb per server. Everything just keeps working, much to the annoyance of everyone who says Asus boards are crap.
Use what main board you're happy with.
Mike-
My Asus P4PE mainboard works perfect, too, except that the onboard ethernet controller must be desabled in the BIOS, because, if enabled, Suse 10.0 completely locks up in an early stage of booting. It took quite a while to find out about this, nobody in any forum has ever seen it, finally the people from the opensuse mailing list could find the reason and help. Don't know if this arises with other Asus main boards, too. My P4PE seems to be computer stone age anyway (3 yrs old) :-) Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com special interest site: http://www.bauer-nudes.com