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Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained (youtu.be)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I have a Asus motherbaord and no updates since 2021 time to get hacked by logoFAIL...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My Asus motherboard started bluescreening Windows. After a lot of effort I traced it down to a specific device ID that windows was loading firmware for. No matter what I tried I couldn't get this auto installation to stop. It was a totally random component that added nothing I could tell.

Asus refused to release new firmware be cause the motherboard was "unsupported" even though the box etc has stickers saying it supports windows 10.

After a ton more effort I figured out how to make some low end api calls that eventually stopped this auto installation. It was mostly reliable. I got to crack a lot of jokes to my friends about my motherboard not supporting windows but it was a really hard period for me particularly because Linux gaming wasn't as strong as it is today. I was really big into league of legends at the time and this experience forced me to quit, losing touch with many friends in the process.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For desktop motherboards I've usually gone MSI but my gaming laptop is an Asus and is a little over a year old. It's worked perfect since I got it and I've had zero problems with it. The Nvidia GPU and laptop fans sure do sing when I'm playing games though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I got an Asus rog strix AMD board in 2019. Still working fine. Like everything I guess, YMMV.

The only issue I've had with it, even after a couple bios updates, is post takes forever. Like 20 seconds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I actually do have an MSI laptop. I forgot I had read so many negative reviews of the Asus that I went the other direction. After posting that I got on my laptop and realized my mistake and remembered the negative reviews about them

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