On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 22:53 -0500, Bryan S. Tyson wrote:
On Monday 27 March 2006 7:17 pm, Michael W Cocke wrote:
I truly don't understand why everyone whines about Asus main boards so much - I haven't used anything but Asus boards in years snip just keeps working, much to the annoyance of everyone who says Asus boards are crap.
I agree, that's all I've used for years and I have always been totally satisfied.
Well, two things: 1. It's not that ASUS boards are crap. It's that their quality control is poor. For every dud ASUS board I've encountered, I've seen too few boards that work perfectly. The success rate (if I may call it that) is higher with other (cheaper) brands. So I don't think their boards are crap. I just know that if I supply an ASUS board to a client, the chances of having to go back there to replace it (which means I make a loss on the board because of extra travel and unbillable time expended) is just higher than with some other brands. The other problem with ASUS is their blatant disregard for their customers, and not just their Linux using customers. I had an ASUS A8V880 board which had a bios bug that caused the machine to hang if you start a graphical interface (both in Linux and Windows) if you use the optimal settings. To get it to function, I had to set the FSB to 200mhz (my CPU is has a 266, thus I had to underclock the CPU), and set the memory down to at least 266mhz (it's DDR400) and disable dual channel mode. Some googling showed me just about everybody else with this particular board had the same (or similar) problems. Everybody has written and complained to ASUS, but more than a year after the board hit the market, there was still no BIOS update available to fix the problem. 2. If you've only ever used ASUS, I don't expect you to understand why we say ASUS is not all that. No disrespect meant. Hans