Wow, Mary, sounds like you've gone a few rounds with this one.  Anyway, I
wanted to add my two cents.  Because one of the main selling points I offer
my customers is affordability, I will often go with lower-end boards to fit
within their budgets (but I ALWAYS make sure they are warrantied for at
least a year).  However, when I have customers with no price objections, I
always use either Abit or Asus.  I have never had a problem with either
board, though I have to admit going with Abit more often than not.  This
would have to do with the fact that I am an obsessive overclocker, but
that's another story.

Most system builders I know will swear by Asus, though, and I will
whole-heartedly agree with them.  I noticed a post earlier about problems
with their support, but I have never faced that issue.  From long years of
working in customer service, though, I would suggest climbing the ladder if
you have those kinds of problems.  This has two benefits.  Number one, it
gets your problem solved.  Number two, it lets them know that they have some
issues, and if enough people have to start talking to supervisors and
managers before getting issues resolved, they will work towards
re-evaluating those issues.  HTH.

Kyle

From: Mary Wolden <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] ASUS MoBo


> From: Bob Wright : Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] ASUS MoBo
>
>
> > At 09:27 AM 10/26/1999 , Tom Landon wrote:
> > >Hi all,
> > >I'm looking at the ASUS P2-B MoBo as a possible upgrade. Does anyone
have
> > >any comments on this unit, or, general thoughts about ASUS products?
> >
> > I can tell you that I choose an ASUS P2B motherboard for my personal
> > computer when I first upgraded to a Slot1 CPU.   It is an excellent
> product..
> > though, I had some issues with it that disappeared when I recently
> > upgraded to an ABIT BE6 motherboard, which has been completely
> > stable since the upgrade...   see my article discussing the upgrade:
> >    http://nospin.com/pc/pcb04-21.html
> >
> >
> >     Bob Wright
> >
>
> I also bought a Asus P2-B for my first slot 1 motherboard.  I had some
> issues with an internal  NEC atapi zip drive not being recognized all of
the
> time.  I switched it with a Iomega zip drive as a bios upgrade hadn't
helped
> at the time.
> I also have switched to the Abit boards, the BH6, BX6 rev2 and my newsest
> board the BE6.  As people on the list informed me the board treats the
> UDMA66 controller as a SCSI drive and 2 drives only use 1 IRQ.  I have one
> UDMA 66 drive and an UDMA 33 drive in the computer.  I also just migrated
> everything from another computer, but I had to take out my network card,
set
> everything up and then reinstall the network card to get things working
> again.  there were no problems setting up the UDMA66 controller.  I also
> would highly recommend this board.
>
> Mary Wolden

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