Motherboards

[Net Llama!]

Yea, that sounds like a standard Asus problem.  I had a few boards that 
refused to even post when all 4 memory slots were populated (and it 
could be any 3, and it would post fine).

On 12/28/02 14:22, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> 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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