Hi Gary,
On Saturday 22 April 2006 05:18, Gary Funck Scribbled:
> > Originally sent on 2/16/06
> > I had a problem on my computer with the Asus A7N8X DELUXE mb
> > several weeks before it failed,
>
> FWIW, I'm running the same mobo., and I had probs. with the SATA
> drives on the first one (leading to eventual corruption of the file
> system). Also on that board it didn't recoginze boards plugged into
> the PCI slots. The replacement board was better, but the fan headers
> didn't work, so it went back. The 3rd board, I'm running now, and
> everything has worked fine, except every three/four days the system
> locks up, a few seconds later the screen goes blank, and I have to
> hit the power switch and reboot. Sometimes
> it'll go as long as week. I'm running an XP/3000+ that ran Win2K
> flawlessly on an Epxx board before moving it to this board. Memory
> is high end Corsair (512Mb).
> I had tried a working XP/2400+ with slower memory and still
> encountered the occasional failure, so it seems to be board or
> software related. I mention this
> simply becuase I was surprised, because Asus generally has a good
> rep. Just fyi, the PSU is new and high end, the OS is WinXP and the
> BIOS and all drivers
> have been updated. I'm going to replace this board one of these days
> and go with another manufacturer (We had another Asus mobo at work
> arrive DOA [wouldn't
> power up]. Maybe we just had a bad run of luck, but must say the
> ABIT's, MISI's,
> and Epox's that we've been running have been working fine.
Asus have been having quality control issues for a couple of years now !
Their alternative "ASrock" which is made in another factory seems to be
much better quality wise. However "ASrock" is supposed to be an
economy version of the Asus products.
I have recently done an evaluation for a client on one of the latest
Asus boards and found that they still are having issues with quality,
and not just with production ! They seem to have some design problems
as well, particularly in buss timings. 64/32 bit conversions and
serial/parallel conversions seem to cause odd random lockups.
Sometimes the machine can recover, most times it just hangs. When it
recovers there is a noticeable delay before the machine continues.
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Best Regards:
Derrick.
Pontefract Linux Users Group.
plug at play-net.co.uk
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