Asus motherboard? -- never again!

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On 03/26/2010 03:06 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> If 100% of ECS boards failed, they would not be in business anymore,
> since no OEM would buy from them.  They do have a long history of
> unreliable and flacky boards.  They may not necesarily die, but they
> can be unreliable. I once saw a windows 98 system that frequently
> crashed and corrupted the filesystem.  Seems simple enough to blame
> microsoft for it.  Turns out replacing the power supply fixed the
> problem.  Bad power made the system unstable.  So an unreliable
> motherboard could do that.

I think that's quite a leap to make from "bad power supply" to 
"unreliable motherboard". You can't be sure that one of your beloved 
Asus motherboards wouldn't have misbehaved the same way with dirty power.
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