Motherboards

[Aaron Grewell]

Wow.  It's hard to imagine a company treating its customers that badly
and expecting them to stick around.  I've been extremely lucky I guess. 
I've had 2 Asus A7V boards running fine for a couple of years now.  I
recently swapped out one of them for an MSI KT4 w/Athlon XP 2000, mostly
because the combo was on sale.  This is sort of a beta test of MSI for
me, we'll see how it goes.  So far so good, RH8 loved it.  Kudzu handled
the hardware swapout without a hitch (including the onboard VIA NIC and
onboard AC97 sound).  WinXP, OTOH, had to be formatted and reinstalled. 
It threw a toddler-style hissyfit.  Even after all the hardware was
detected it ran like total garbage.  I even installed a new HDD to do
the XP reinstall to see if it was a hardware problem, but once a fresh
XP was on it ran like a champ.  So much for Microsoft's plug-n-play
support.

On a separate topic, six hours later the power supply fried and took out
both the new HDD with my happy XP install and the old one that had all
my data on it.  So I now have pretty much an entirely new PC. 
Unplanned, but oh well. :(

On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 08:17, Net Llama! wrote:
> On 12/28/02 21:01, Rick Forrister wrote:
> > I've a good friend here in the L.A. area who builds high end systems for a living.  They supply several of the render farms in the Hollywood area, etc.  They formerly used a lot of ASUS motherboards, and had good success with them.  A couple years back, the failure rate started to creap up on them.  Then they started having problems with ASUS warrantee support - long delays, getting "replacements" that were obviously recycled returns (and sometimes still not working), lots of other fun and games.  They no longer handle ASUS products at all.
> 
> Ah yes, recyled returns, that's another Asus trick.  Just last week i 
> got back 3 boards from them.  All 3 were still broken, two were beta 
> boards (the rev # on the label indicated it as such), and the 3rd had so 
> much dirt & dust on it that it had to have been sitting on a shelf for 
> months, exposed to the air.  Needless to say, i've sent them back for 
> another round of replacements.