No $160 Mobo should have so many problems... If only Asus could feel a portion of my anger, they would quickly change their product support...
Yesterday my system shut down because I plugged in a USB device (Logitech Momo Steering wheel) and the system shut down... Crash, no error message, basic hardware level shutdown.
The Momo Steering Wheel is self powered through a supply of its own, so its cannot be any other issue rather then the BIOS... The drivers I am using, and the Momo Wheel has been used for months without a single failure... This is no doubt a Asus defect with USB support on P5B... I expect it to be fixed when Asus decides that if they screw people, that they will turn around and screw them... I am on a personal crusade to lower overall sales of ALL Asus products... and will continue this crusade until the DAY I die.
Mike
Why don't you RMA your motherboard? Seriously.
Asus has made some pretty bad motherboards.. the two worst boards they've ever made are the P4S8X and the A8R-MVP. I own both of them.. horrible boards.
What makes them horrible?
The P4S8X is horrible due to it's supposed support for AGP8X but it's lack of support for AGP8X. It won't run ANY cards at AGP8X, defaults to 4X. Some workarounds were implemented but once AGP8X was activated the system would shut down or freeze intermittently.
The A8R-MVP is horrible due to it's advertised and reviewed super overclocking ability, unfortunatly it's the poorest overclocker I've ever bought. Heck the VCore options are shameful.
Those are the two only Asus products I've never liked.
As for other companies, well MSI almost burned down my house so let's just say they're on my blacklist. (MSI K8N Neo3 Platinum).
And don't get me started on Gigabyte's poor AMD boards or Elitegroup (ECS) and there K7S5A (vomits). Although I must admit.. I couldn't keep stock of the K7S5A as that board would fly off the shelves.. it's the best selling motherboard I've ever sold (back when I ran my own PC business).Should PCChips not be in your hated mobo's list?...
They are garbage!! :x
They are..
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