[PLUG] New Motherboard Recomendations

[Michael Funk]

I have been installing Asus boards for years. I pretty much felt that they
were the best.  As of about a year ago I installed 10 Asus boards and they
all display the same problem.  They lock up on boot, intermittently die if I
am able to get them running. Sometimes they run for a month or two, then
start up with that again.  I figured it was probably that type of board, but
have since installed several more Asus boards, all displaying this problem.
Pace Computers says they have never seen this problem before.  I have never
seen anything on the Asus website for a fix for it.  

Personally, I'll never buy another Asus board.  It will be Intel, if
anything.
Michael Funk 

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[mailto:plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of chris (fool) mccraw
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 2:56 PM
To: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help, civil and on-topic
Subject: Re: [PLUG] New Motherboard Recomendations

On 4/7/08, Roderick A. Anderson <raanders at acm.org> wrote:
> Robert McIntosh wrote:
>  > ASUS motherboards have a solid reputation and I've installed many  
> > variants of Linux on them with minimal fuss.  Recently, my ASUS  > 
> motherboard of 6 years died (probably static discharge...was on a  > 
> carpet).  I replaced it with another ASUS (AMD based) with onboard  > 
> video/lan/sound and CentOS picked it all up beautifully on install.
>
>
> I have a dual Pentium II 250 Mhz ASUS board that I just got back up as 
> a  server.  I can't even remember when I bought it; 1998, 1999.  
> Before it  had a SCSI host card and would stomp the bogomips out of 
> the 1.4 GHz AMD  with ATA drives I am using for a workstation right now.
>
>  So 10+ years for that ASUS board.

I got almost 8 years x 24hrs out of a similar (asus/300mhz pII) setup before
it went flaky (never troubleshot to see if it was the m/b, processor (which
had been running fanless for 4 years without a fan!), scsi card, or memory).
I also built a few clusters out of asus-based machines that far outlived
some of their no-name counterparts.  so count another vote for asus.
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