Dibbler's Net

Bought this motherboard about a year or so ago. I have previously owned ASUS products and they had all worked very well and had decent features. This one however was pretty much the opposite. Ever since day one the thing has had an issue that I had never seen in most other electronics. The system would not boot, not even POST if the mother board was too cold. And by cold I mean more around room temperature. Quite often after a MS Tuesday night update the machine would be dead from the restart. In order to get the system warm enough to boot I would have to place a jacket over the entire computer case for about 10 minutes. Then it would boot without any issues. After that I would turn the fans back on and remove the jacket and have a running machine. After about a week of this I started hitting the Asus forums. The details were everywhere, people had tried the usual bad power supply or memory or other options. But now looking back the general consensus was that the Rev 2 version of this motherboard had some real issues that only a factory repair would fix. At a certain point you look across how many different models and features Asus has in motherboards and you start to see how little thing’s like QA start to suffer.

Well as of today the pain is over. This motherboard is now on the pile of parts in case I need them area. I will talk more about the replacement in another post as it is not an Asus or an Intel board but something new.
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