Sounds like Asus took all the people who knew what they were doing and understood customer service and exiled them to ASRock <G>. That way the good ones don't contaminate Asus!
On Saturday February 25 2006 07:35, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Saturday 25 February 2006 07:55, Jarry wrote: > > Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > > Thanks. I believe Tom's Hardware liked ASRock, too. I'll add them to > > > my list. > > > > AFAIK, ASRock is nothing else, then just daughter-company of ASUS, and > > its primary business-area are low-end (cheap) products which ASUS did not > > want to sell under name "ASUS". But I do not say they it is a bad choice, > > yes, Asrock is a daughter, in their 'how to build a computer' video, they > even use Asus graphic cards, BUT: > their support is better. They regularly release updated bios', and when I > had a problem with my elderly scsi controller, I got an answer in less than > 36h, which totally solved the problem. > > They officially don't support linux, but when some people had problems with > the K7S8X and some knoppix versions, they released a bios, that fixed the > problem in a few days. So they are good guys in my book ;) -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
