On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:21:23 -0600 Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Did you read the whole post? Yes, I did; why do you ask? > What do you mean, when you say "lose/lost connection to the disk"? I > don't recall having anything like that ever happen. Sounds a bit > like a cabling problem. The disk became "unreachable", the error message was something like that the "device or ressource is busy". Rebooting didn't help, I had to turn the computer fully off before the disk became "reachable" again. It worked for a while then --- could be a few days or two or three months --- and for no apparent reason, it would lose connection again. It wasn't a cabling problem either, I tried another cable and swapped the disks, to no avail. > I had a deal with Asus boards where, if you made a change to the disk > setup, like adding or removing a drive, the BIOS would change the > default boot disk without asking. That was pretty obnoxious. But is > was not a hardware problem. How would you update the BIOS? I quit using floppy disks many years ago, and they didn't have something to download and burn a bootable CD from to update the BIOS of that board. Even if a BIOS update would have fixed the problem, it wasn't possible to update it --- and it didn't fix it for the boards we had at work. Before that, I've had a couple MSI boards, at home and at work, and I've never had any trouble with them. I would have bought MSI again, but the Asus board seemed to have some advantages, and Asus had a good reputation. After that experience, I'm not buying Asus anymore and can only recommend to stay away from them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
