Originally Posted by EtheAv8r the BIOS bugs (RAID/SATA Optical Boot) with the AB9 QuadGT were (and still are) 'schoolboy errors' and that they kept re-occuring is a sad reflection on Abit as a whole and the BIOS team specifically. Thank heavens for RichH and his 'fixed' BIOS releases.
Yes must agree, its kinda sad when it takes an enthusiast with some programming experiance to fix bios issues with
Abit motherboards, when
Abit Bios Engineers seem to have a problem in solving these issues quickly - personally if I was in charge of Abit I would sack them due to their lack of skills in producing fixes on a reasonable time scale & bring in people who know exactly what their doing.
Heavy user of both
Asus &
Abit motherboards here, I usually had switched between the two as I like both manufacturers, but I had a problem with my
Asus A8V Deluxe last year & due to the terrible support by Asus, I never did get the RMA sorted out so jumped back to Abit.
I have one RMA within the last year with
Abit for an
Abit IN9 32X-MAX - I got a new board sorted out within 5 working days which was excellent service.
Asus are great at bringing new bios out on a regular basis, always trying to improve. With Abit it always seems like 3 or 4 bios updates within a 8 month period & thats it with them (although betas seem to be more regualar now), also its not that usual to aquire a motherboard from abit without any bugs from a bios persective. Saying that look at the
Asus P5K Premium - sata2 problems still after months & months I feel sorry for owners of that board with these issues.
All in all, I think all companys have their positive & negative points - I'll still stick with Abit now for better or for worse. (The
Abit X48-Max DDR3 Motherboard better run smoothly on release!!!)