Asus motherboard? -- never again!

[ted leslie]

i swear by asus and tyan,  tyan for amd, and both i consider for intel.
i was going to buy a asus shortly, as intel seems to be the way to go as of late.
I will have to do some checking now. Tyan are always a good bet, but a little pricy.
I am not aware of any other brands of motherboards that are considered rocks except asus and tyan.

tl

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:29:50 -0400
Peter King <peter.king.1-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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.
> 
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> Peter King
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