On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:57:50 +0000, rallee2{at}comcast.net wrote:

>  Here's another vote for Asus.  All mfrs have some percentage of
> failure but Asus is well above avg quality and reliability and many
> consider them *the* "bar setter" of the industry, myself included
> especially in the niche of enthusiast performance mobos.  BTW the
> nvidia chipset enjoys considerable OS/2 support often even the gigabit
> ethernet which is basically a Realtek 8169.

  I have to cast one big negative vote, unfortunately.

  We have an Asus K8V-MX m/b with an AMD Sempron 2600 CPU in a
  non-OS/2 system (yeah, I'll 'fess up, it's WinXP but that's not the
  issue).  It runs wonderfully.  Recently we needed to add a second
  sound device (SoundBlaster card) for a specialized control application
  that should be run on a separate sound card.

  Guess what - the system didn't recognize two cards.  After a bit of
  hemming and hawing, Asus admitted that their m/bs do not accept
  multiple sound devices.  Looks like we'll have to reconfigure the
  application to use a "shared" sound device, which is not easy to do
  when it runs 24/7.

  My OS/2 system runs on an Abit KD7 m/b with an AMD Athlon 1800 CPU.
  If this will accept a second sound device I may just switch operating
  systems and rn OS/2 on the faster machine!

  No good deed goes unpunished.....

--
   Phil Kane

   From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
   Beaverton (Washington County)  Oregon



 
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