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Can't believe it, on the 4th mobo now, had the Abit F190HD which would not post properly, foxconn G9657MA which had problems running RAID 0, random freezes, standby issue, Asus P5B-VM DO, which did not support PCI-E graphics cards, and no easy way to upgrade the BIOS, using utility provided to update BIOS corrupted it, so dead board, and now on the 2nd P5B-VM DO which after managing the BIOS update no thanks to Asus seems to be working fine, but don't take my word for it..
Is there such thing as a full working MATX board?, once which the features advertised actually work, eg RAID 0, S3 Standby?, what is the chance that the board I buy will work 100%?, it's pretty silly these days the amount of boards released that have such basic problems which are not addressed until 6 months later.... of course blame it on the end user not knowing what they are doing
Well will see how this board goes, regarding the BIOS update as with previous Asus boards using AMI BIOS, simply copy new BIOS to bootable floppy with afudos flash utility, which is what it says in the BIOS, but fitting a 2MB BIOS on a floppy is a no no, tried a USB flash drive which was listed in the manual, BIOS named correctly but still not happening ,in the end cloned the Asus recovery disc and replaced stock BIOS on there with new one, and the Asus EZflash picked it up..
Just goes to show, if your looking to buy a MATX mobo, then do some research, find out customer reviews of it on forums and see what kind of problems are expected, if like the Abit F190HD most of them are negative then avoid like the Plague.., of course there might be the slim chance that the board actually works, just barely...
Anyway if your looking for a MATX board with RAID 0, and works fine with Standby then go for the Asus P5B-VM DO, once the BIOS is updated then you should not have any problems... running Vista 64bit on mine
Is there such thing as a full working MATX board?, once which the features advertised actually work, eg RAID 0, S3 Standby?, what is the chance that the board I buy will work 100%?, it's pretty silly these days the amount of boards released that have such basic problems which are not addressed until 6 months later.... of course blame it on the end user not knowing what they are doing
Well will see how this board goes, regarding the BIOS update as with previous Asus boards using AMI BIOS, simply copy new BIOS to bootable floppy with afudos flash utility, which is what it says in the BIOS, but fitting a 2MB BIOS on a floppy is a no no, tried a USB flash drive which was listed in the manual, BIOS named correctly but still not happening ,in the end cloned the Asus recovery disc and replaced stock BIOS on there with new one, and the Asus EZflash picked it up..
Just goes to show, if your looking to buy a MATX mobo, then do some research, find out customer reviews of it on forums and see what kind of problems are expected, if like the Abit F190HD most of them are negative then avoid like the Plague.., of course there might be the slim chance that the board actually works, just barely...
Anyway if your looking for a MATX board with RAID 0, and works fine with Standby then go for the Asus P5B-VM DO, once the BIOS is updated then you should not have any problems... running Vista 64bit on mine