On Sunday 24 April 2005 2:47 am, you wrote: > At 03:33 PM 4/23/2005, Chuck Andrews typed: > >Asus told me that the board has a 3 year warranty. Asus seemed to > > roll out the red carpet for me, their ASI customer. > > Baloney, are you naive. Almost all mombo manufacturers have retail > [warranty 3yr] & oem [warranty varies] versions of their boards. I > can get any ASUS retail board & get the same kind of treatment from > Asus as you have. As a matter of fact I did on my A7V333 but Asus > also lied saying that the memory bus speed would increase from 266 > to 333 mhz via a bios upgrade & that was BS as they issued a newer > version of the board, rev 1 screwing many people in the process. It > all comes down to money.
<--Snipped--> > ----------+---------- > Wayne D. Johnson > Ashland, OH, USA 44805 > <http://www.wavijo.com> Since it seems that Asus is the focus of debate. I might as well add my two pennyworth !! A few years ago I would not have bought or recommended anything not Asus !! Then the counterfeiters moved in. Suddenly it seemed that every distributor was selling Asus mainboard. Around the same time Asus started to have quality control problems, which didn't help. The upshot of this was that Asus started to reject bad boards, some on the basis that the board was counterfeit. Thats fair enough !! But more importantly on the grounds that it was 'grey product'. It soon became obvious that Asus was trying to protect its distributor base !! Both from counterfeit product and from distribution that had non UK access to European supplies. Shortly after the brand ASRock appeared. It soon became apparent that this was a very low cost, low end product produced to protect the Asus name and make product so cheap that the counterfeiters couldn't make money. The effect, at least in the UK, is that Asus has two markets. It seems that only Asus approved distributors can supply the "Asus brand" product, but everybody can supply ASRock. Even so, Asus has suffered with quality problems for a long time. So much so that I now only recommend "Gigabyte". Based on previous discussion, I suspect that things are a little different in the US market ! -- Best Regards: Derrick. Pontefract Linux Users Group. -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unofficial Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://winhome.wavijo.com/
