Motherboards

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Thank you.  That helps.  I haven't dealt directly with Asus - I let me 
dealer do that.  At this point I have hte ASUS A7M266-D working with two of 
the four memory modules out (I had 4 512, now have  2) so it appears it 
doesn't like to run 2G!


Net Llama! wrote:

> 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.
> 

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