I've checked the asus website and they have 5 branches
of manufacture facilities in North America (Asus Computer International) Main
HQ, ASUSTek Computer Inc. (Asia/Pacific), ASUS COMPUTER GmbH (Germany/Austria),
ASUS Holland B.V. (Netherlands), and
ASUS COMPUTER (China).
I suspect that these defective counterfeit boards may be comming from either
ASUSTek Computer Inc. (Asia/Pacific) or ASUS COMPUTER (China). Since the
article mentions that ASUS sent the board back to a RD team in Taiwan it might
have came from ASUS COMPUTER (China) which covers the entire pacific rim.
As for the factory closing and changing their name doesn't release them from
any liabilities or damages caused by said defective/counterfeit product for it
will only worsen the possibility that more of these pirated boards may show up.
I think that this is more of a case of hardware piracy since its more heavily
prevalant in the Asia/pacific rim more that anywhere else.
I've been using Asus mobos for may years and haven't encountered a problem
since then especially with my 4 year old Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe mobo which has
been running with any incident thus far. ;)
Marc Sims
Data Technician I
Prince George's Community College
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/05/06 3:28 PM >>>
Hi Guys,
I hate to say it again ! Asus has being having quality control problems
for a long time ! Short of closing the problem factory, they changed
the name and started production elswhere, hence ASRock !
Purely conjecture, but I wonder where all the counterfeit ASUS
mainboards came/come from ??
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