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. >>> >> > -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
