Asus motherboard? -- never again!

[Peter King]

In 2005, I put together a computer with an Asus M2V motherboard. It
ran for three years and, minutes after the expiration of the warranty,
died with a series of cascading bus errors.

Well, hardware failure happens. I bought an Asus M4A78 Pro to replace
it, dropped it in, and got it to work. It ran for just over thirteen months,
when it failed, again with Linux reporting a string of bus errors. That's
too soon, so I called up Asus, got an RMA, and sent it back. There was
a quick turnaround: about eight days later I had a new replacement
M4A78 Pro, with a note that the one I'd sent in was, indeed, no good.

I dropped in the new motherboard, and it booted up with most things
working -- just not the ethernet  chip. A bit of googling turned up the
information that this isn't uncommon, so I installed a PCI ethernet
card, with some annoyance. That was Monday.

On Tuesday, it would not boot at all. Rechecked cables, power supply,
fiddled with the RAM, nothing. Eventually I gave up and took it over
to Filtech for them to check it out.

You guessed it: The "new" replacement motherboard was completely
dead.

I told them to put in a new motherboard. They proposed a fancier Asus
model. Not a chance. Let's see if a Gigabyte will do any better -- it
would have to work at it to do any worse (two days!).

I know any given component can fail. But that's too many, too quickly,
including one sent straight from the company. No more Asus products
for me.

-- 
Peter King
peter.king-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
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