Asus motherboard? -- never again!

[Jose]

On 3/26/2010 11:08 PM, Colin McGregor wrote:
> 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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My only complain about asus is that their bios demands certain amount of 
ramm of the physical side, and last time I upgraded to 4 GB and darn 
thing took 850Mb out of it, what's with that.

Other than that I believe these motherboards are solid
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