Motherboards

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Well, they outdid themselves on this one - If I use two, fine, more than 
that and bang.

Net Llama! wrote:

> 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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