On 04/28/06 12:32 pm Phil Kane wrote:

> 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!

I don't see myself ever needing multiple sound devices, so that doesn't 
seem to be a problem for me.

Moreover, Asus A8V and A8N boards are the only ones I've seen reported 
*so far* that work with dual-core AMD CPUs and eCS SMP.

-=-
Alan


 
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