Davej wrote:
Why does it seem that every motherboard is disliked by 1/4 of the
owners? It makes it difficult to figure out which motherboards are
better than others.

Not really. Abit, MSI, Asus, DFI, Intel, Supermicro, and Gigabyte all make
good products.

As Dave mentions elsewhere in this thread, often the problem is the builder
and not the hardware.



This "systems engineer" is a good example:
http://tinyurl.com/ylj5kz

"If an operating system such as Windows is loaded on this drive, it will not
boot. This drive is designed for data storage (Enterprise Storage)only and
is missing a standard boot sector. I am a systems engineer and have
confirmed this with Seagate techinical support at 1-877-xxx-xxxx."