Asus motherboard? -- never again!

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:40:07AM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Peter King <peter.king.1-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> [issues with multiple ASUS motherboards snipped]
> 
> I basically just buy ASUS motherboards, and over the last 10 years I
> haven't had hardware issues with them. What I did run into a few years
> ago was a BIOS bug that from my point of view rendered a motherboard
> useless... I wanted a small box that I could put in my bedroom to
> serve as a diskless client tied to my "main" MythTV PC. The BIOS bug
> caused the motherboard to present a invalid (read a broadcast) MAC
> address to the network. Okay, so mine was an issue that would not be
> noticed by 99.9% + of the buyers of that motherboard, but it caused me
> grief, and I made very sure ASUS was made well aware of the trouble I
> had. It did take more months than I was happy with, but they did
> release an updated BIOS that did fix this issue...

That was one of the nvidia chipset bugs that make some people hate
nvidia chipsets.  Seems every board with nvidia chipsets had that bug.
A few boards eventually fixed it.

Certainly when I build a computer, the question is not which brand of
motherboard to use.  The question is simply which Asus board to use.

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Len Sorensen
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