Asus Motherboards are Junk

[TheGreatSatan]

This is what I see every day. Piles of Asus garbage motherboards. Their video cards, monitors and laptops are all fine though.

These are all marked to be returned to the vendor

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[diluzio91]

I agree.... My friends 790 board started losing the PCIE slots the other week after 3 years, and i had another friend lose his i7 to an asus board with a mild OC...

[blaze15301]

i had a crosshair 2 and i will never go back again. I had all kinds of odd issues with the board. and asus support sucks.

[blueonblack]

I've only owned one and it too lost power to the PCIe slots. They won't get me twice.

[Fuganater]

I'm on my 3rd, about to by a 4th... never had any issues.

[SXRguyinMA]

I'm running an P5E right now that I got from Trace, and my wife was running a new P5N-D up until I got her the sandy bridge setup from TGS's contest, now her old C2D is going to me mom to replace her old P4

[mDust]

I'm on my 3rd, about to by a 4th... never had any issues.

I've not had any trouble (that I didn't cause myself) with any of my last 4 Asus boards. I lost a PCIe slot on my last one, but it was due to a watercooling leak that fried parts of the board and the gpu. Expensive incident.:( They've always been 'rock solid' while heavily OC'd 24/7...just like it says on the box.

There was the NB incident with the Formula IVs, but Asus offered to take care of that. I just fixed it myself. A dab of TIM was all that was needed...not worth the shipping time.:rolleyes:

Out of curiosity, do those boards going back say what's wrong with them? Someone may have ordered the wrong board or didn't like the color. lol

[Twigsoffury]

think asus is bad, should try rocking a ECS mainboard one time.


they don't really "stop" working, but one parts fails, and then another and then another

i had a ECS board (cant remember the model name) but it was socket 462


well first one of the IDE slots went, and then the other.. so i used a PCI ide card.

then the board suddenly forced itself to 4x mode and would never go to 8x again.

then two of the five PCI slots stopped working.

and i had to give up after the rest of the pci slots stopped working.

[DynamoNED]

I've been running a mixture of ASUS & Gigagbyte boards for years, and never had a single problem with any of them (including an ASUS P5B Deluxe and an ASUS P4M800). That is, until my latest build for my parents using an ASUS M4A785-M board I got as part of a bundle. The video wouldn't work 50% of the time (whether I ran it through onboard or a discrete card), and when it did, the board would throw out a "Bad BIOS Checksum" error, regardless of whether I used the original BIOS or flashed it to a newer version. The board refused to even POST with RAM in either of the "B" slots. I think I posted a thread in the Chatterbox about my horrible ASUS Tech Support experience (link forthcoming), but I did get an RMA and the identical replacement motherboard worked just fine.

@Twigsoffury - I feel your pain about ECS motherboards. Made the mistake of using an ECS once in a relative's build - NEVER AGAIN. After less than 6 months, the motherboard developed a short where it would randomly shut down for no apparent reason. After essentially rebuilding the machine twice with different CPU's, RAM, hard drives, and cooling systems with no effect, I finally swapped it with an ASUS that has proved to be no problem for the last 3 years.

[TheGreatSatan]

Out of curiosity, do those boards going back say what's wrong with them? Someone may have ordered the wrong board or didn't like the color. lol

It's definitely not the color. It's any number of things, like dead PCIe's, bad SATA ports, not responding USB ports, etc

[SXRguyinMA]

you guys and your F-ECS rambling lol :D Check out what's in my Red Comet build....still rock solid even with it's age

[TheGreatSatan]

My ECS lasted 5 years, then I sold it. Still running today.

[Twigsoffury]

My ECS lasted 5 years, then I sold it. Still running today.

yea my buddy has a ECS board rocking on a pentium III 866mhz processor thats been running just about every day since 1999 and hasn't had a issue.


Really i just think as with any motherboard no matter the vendor, its just luck of the draw and how effective your TOTAL cooling is, not just how cold the processor or video card is.

Never had a MSi mainboard burn up though, and i'm on about my 14th MSi mainboard now i'd guess. (started building computers when i was 16, about 1996 or so?)

Man i do not miss having to flip billions of dip switches and move dozens of jumpers just to set up IRQ's and bus speeds.

i do miss the good old ISA slot and that really old style memory you put in at a 45 degree angle. think its SIMM ram or something along those lines.



you guys and your F-ECS rambling lol :D Check out what's in my Red Comet build....still rock solid even with it's age

That is a cool mod was just looking at it.

[DarthBeavis]

I have had fewer issues with ASUS mobos than any other I used on a regular basis but then I also have ties with ASUS and get really good RMA service if and when I need it. I use ROG products

[TheGreatSatan]

I forgot to take a picture of the two RoG laptops waiting to be returned too

[farlo]

ive been having random resets with the pc in my mancave, i think the asus mobo is to blame, either that or my nzxt psu is starting to show its age.

[Snowman]

I have 3 asus boards running at home right now with no challenges, the only board I have fail on me was because my liquid cooling setup leaked and wasn't as pure as I thought.

[xr4man]

my dos box is running an ecs board with a socket 7 amd 450MHz chip. it runs great.

also my main desktop is running an asus board. it was an open box buy from newegg and other than having to update the bios when i first got it, it has run without a hick-up for a bit over a year now.

the ecs board is the only one i have multiple experiences with since that's what we used at a company i worked for that built computers. oh and pc-chips, i've used several of boards from them too. otherwise i seem to always get a board from a different manufacturer every time i upgrade. so i don't know much about reliability from manufacturer to another.

[PS2SP]

Just my 2p I've had a Crosshair II Formula running nearly 24/7/365 for the last 3-4 years without fault, plus I've got a Rampage III Extreme overclocked for gaming and vid editing/dvd fiddling without any problems.

I've had no prob's with either or any other Asus mobo in spite of not handling them with any real care, anti-static precautions pah I laugh at them, also had good times with Gigabyte.

I think it's something that is basically a case of people who have problems will talk/whine/complain about it, human nature, people who don't have problems i.e. more than likely the majority don't take the time to post up positives unless posts like this crop up.

All swings and roundabouts.

[diluzio91]

The only mfgs i've used over the past few years are gig, asus, and evga, and i can honestly say that aside from some user id10t errors the asus are the only ones i've had fail (used gig board being an exception, but it was used, so id10t cant be ruled out).

every asus board i or a customer have owned has been replaced or rma'd within the first 2 years for some kind of issue. I love their boards, but for people who keep their computers for a long time i cant justify putting one in their computer.

[RogueOpportunist]

Out of curiosity, do those boards going back say what's wrong with them? Someone may have ordered the wrong board or didn't like the color. lol

Worked retail customer service management for 6 or 7 years and in my experience it doesn't matter what it is coming back to the store, at LEAST 50% of the time there is nothing wrong with it, the customer either made up some BS reason for returning it because they thought you wouldn't take it back otherwise OR they're too dumb for the technology purchased and they can't get it to "work" ...and I say that as a person who has had to peel the fake LCD sticker off calculators people wanted to return because the numbers wouldn't change... Not just once either.

I'm not a fan of Asus myself but in my experience the vast majority of "tech problems" are ID-10-T errors, usually caused by a nut loose on the keyboard.

[Beta-brain]

Two P5N-D mobo's I used for builds for people, the first mobo worked for a week and died completely but in the week it was working I bought another and the rear audio output didn't work from day one and it was a real pain sorting out replacements!

[Twigsoffury]

Worked retail customer service management for 6 or 7 years and in my experience it doesn't matter what it is coming back to the store, at LEAST 50% of the time there is nothing wrong with it, the customer either made up some BS reason for returning it because they thought you wouldn't take it back otherwise OR they're too dumb for the technology purchased and they can't get it to "work" ...and I say that as a person who has had to peel the fake LCD sticker off calculators people wanted to return because the numbers wouldn't change... Not just once either.

I'm not a fan of Asus myself but in my experience the vast majority of "tech problems" are ID-10-T errors, usually caused by a nut loose on the keyboard.

want to know a secret?


When your build a brand new computer, You can't place the side back on the case before powering it up or it won't work.


Leave the side off and it's first turn on works perfectly.

Put the side on and its a 45 minute battle getting it to post.

[diluzio91]

want to know a secret?


When your build a brand new computer, You can't place the side back on the case before powering it up or it won't work.


Leave the side off and it's first turn on works perfectly.

Put the side on and its a 45 minute battle getting it to post.

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[DynamoNED]

In my experience the vast majority of "tech problems" are ID-10-T errors, usually caused by a nut loose on the keyboard.

Sig quote worthy.

[Twigsoffury]

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watch it'll happen to you.


One day


you will put the side of the case on and expect it to work



NO

[TheGreatSatan]

Happened to me last night. Worst thing was that it worked fine ten minutes earlier when in a different case.

[xr4man]

Btdt!

[Twigsoffury]

Happened to me last night. Worst thing was that it worked fine ten minutes earlier when in a different case.

It's the side panels fault.