On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:08:34 -0500, you wrote:
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 19:17 -0500, Michael W Cocke wrote:
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.
They're not complaining so much about the boards being crap as much as when you get a bad board and request support and you're running linux they no longer want to talk to you, period. So it's not that the boards are crap ASUS support is crap if you're running linux.
OIC. I haven't bothered to call tech support in years either - I inevitably know more about the issue than the script-reading high school dropouts they hire... and I don't just mean Asus. I make certain that I really do have a bad board, then I call and 'press the appropriate buttons' with their support idiots to get an RMA. period. Mike- -- If you're not confused, you're not trying hard enough. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments,