Hello everyone: While I agree than anyone can experience problems with any hardware, regardless of the name on the box, I have had good luck with Asus MBs. My oldest box (now running for 7 years) is an AMD K6 350 Mhz machine and while there have been hardware issues, none of those were MB issues. My two newest machines are both AMD64 on Asus MBs running SuSE 9.3 / 64-bit mode. [In fact, one machine is dual-boot with windoze XP Home.] One has been running without a hiccup for more than 14 months. The other is new but, here again, no problems. As I've never tried to use Asus support, I can't comment on that. But, given my good experiences with Asus / SuSE linux, I would suggest that anyone looking for a new MB should ask around before putting their money down. Yes, I've seen the comments about poor performance but, as I said, those comments can apply to any product. cheers, Mike On July 25, 2005 07:38, Jack Malone wrote:
I have to go along with the other person who replied to your message. Â Stay away from ASUS. Â Their support for Linux doesn't exist. Â In fact, when one tells a support person he is using Linux, from that moment on the rep is trying to get off the phone. Â Downright rude.
I do not see why you all say to stay away from asus boards. so what that they do not seem linux friendly. I have had way more better preformance from my asus motherboards with linux then with windows on them. I have uses asus mbs for years with none of the problems you seem to be having. mine last server ran for better part of a year without any hiccups an only went down when it did because of power outage. my current one is a 64 bit asus mb an preforms just fine. jack