Asus motherboard? -- never again!

[Colin McGregor]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.

Did you get caught on the same BIOS bug? If so, on what sort of project(s)?

> 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.

My first (well, only) new motherboard after the above noted mess was
another ASUS . I wasn't happy about the BIOS bug (yes, it may have
been due to an nVidia issue, but I hold the motherboard maker
responsible for the whole package...). From experience I know that
once ASUS hardware is running  it will be almost bullet proof...

Colin McGregor
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