Submitted 2 days ago by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.zip
I never got why Asus is so beloved. The RoG branding is cringe even by motherboard branding standards, and the one Asus board I had (a M3A78) had a surprise showstopper incompatibility (hard crashes with a specific PCI-e card that worked fine on a LGA775 board and a Gigabyte 790X board) that their support refused to take responsibility for.
It’s like they’re still coasting on the goodwill from when they did a dual-Celeron board.
I bricked an Asus laptop 15 years ago because their instructions on performing a BIOS update didn't include anything about what filesystem to use on the flash drive with the update file. I used NTFS (which was obviously a mistake in retrospect) and completely bricked the machine.
I tried calling their support line 30 times and never once got to talk to a human. I eventually just gave up on that laptop and replaced it with a Mac. I've been intensely sceptical of Asus products ever since then.
It shouldn’t have been able to read the drive if it was ntfs. That’s very weird
Also bios updates from USB ALWAYS require FAT even across platforms.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah, ASUS is in an awful state. Their Armory Crate malware* really just takes the cake on the whole thing.
*It literally survives through a full format and will run on your computer without any human interaction if you buy an ASUS mohterboard. It’s malware.
Yeno@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not that I support Asus doing this in any wy, but last I saw there was an option in BIOS to enabled and disable automatic armoury crate installation. Hope that helps someone. :)