Asus motherboard? -- never again!

[William Park]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 09:51:36PM -0400, Peter King wrote:
> Could be something in the machine, at least for the last two. But when
> I put in the
> factory-sent motherboard on Monday, I also changed the power supply,
> and it's all
> plugged into a UPS (which should take care of random spikes). So my guess is the
> motherboards -- maybe the M4A78 Pro is a rum design.

I also have AMD/Asus board... and it's flaky.  I think the only reason
why it lasted this long is I have very good power supply.  My next
computer will be Intel cpu and Intel board.

-- 
William

> 
> I have an eight-year-old Asus motherboard in the machine I'm using to send this
> message, and it has been a rock. Luck of the draw, perhaps.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:12 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > | From: Peter King <peter.king.1-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
> >
> > | 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.
> >
> > I wonder if something else in your box is eating motherboards.  For
> > example, perhaps the power supply is out of spec or generating spikes.
> >
> > Why do I wonder?  Because three dead motherboards is a bit of a
> > string.  But note: three isn't really a large sample.
> >
> > If there is a pattern, what is the common factor?
> >
> > - the brand of the motherboard
> >
> > - the actual power going into the box (spikes?)
> >
> > - something in the box
> >
> >  + the power supply
> >
> >  + a PCI board
> >
> >  + an internal device (CD, DVD, HDD, ...)
> >
> >  + the (lack of) cooling
> >
> > - an external device (ethernet, modem, printer).  Possibly as a
> >  conduit for electrical surge.
> >
> > In this list, the actual brand of the motherboard would not be the
> > first thing on the list that I'd suspect.

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