Motherboards

[Net Llama!]

Back in the day when VA was selling hardware, one of their servers used 
the Asus CUR-DLS dual proc mobo.  It had a 40% failure rate.  Asus took 
an average of 7 weeks to provide replacements.  When the boards failed, 
it varied from one of the two CPU sockets going bad, to timing issues, 
to failed memory slots/buses, to IRQ failures.  We ended up doing some 
fairly elaborate testing on the boards to determine why the failure rate 
was so high, and we found that Asus had cut corners with specs. 
Voltages would vary outside of the allowable range by as much as 1V. 
Neutral would spike up to 200V at times for no apparent reason.  In 
short, the boards were complete crap and Asus first denied that they had 
a quality problem, and then dragged their feet when we needed large 
numbers of replacements (at one point we needed over 500 boards replaced 
over the sourse of a single week).  It was a complete nightmare, and as 
a result i will never willingly use Asus products again.

On 12/28/02 09:39, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> Just out of curiosity what experiences have you had with Asus?  I've used 
> them for several years with no problems but that has been on Windows (and a 
> Caldera) system so Windows probably masked any problems <G> - I'm open to 
> feedback!  
> 
> Thank you.
> 
>> On 12/28/02 08:43, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>>> What brands of motherboards have you had good luck with?  I run AMD
>>> processors and do NOT want a VIA chipset (I don't want it for Intel
>>> either <G>).
>> 
>> Tyan boards are fairly good.  I'd avoid Asus like the plague.

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