Motherboard Issue - Hardware & Software

I'm about to ditch Asus, they've been nothing but problems with every motherboard I've had, biggest piece of shit... I've just updated the BIOS to the latest version on my M4A87TD EVO, but the issue is still there. It keeps not detecting my PS/2 keyboard. When I reboot, it's fine. The fit usually starts with no video when I power up, or the PC just starts grinding to a halt when I am using it. When the PC starts fucking up when I use it...when I reboot, only 3 cores are active of 4 cores. I reset the BIOS via the jumper...keyboard isn't detected so I have to boot to Windows and hit restart that way. Finally get into the BIOS, set everything up, and all is fine. Is this just a bad board, or is something else wrong?

See if you can set the keyboard options in bios to PS/2 only. It should be labeled something like "PS/2 detect" or similar. For the video issue, is this onboard graphics or a seperate graphics card?

I have had issues with this series, stay away from anything of that gen really

[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;34140281]I have had issues with this series, stay away from anything of that gen really[/QUOTE] I'm steering away from Asus all together. So this is just a glitch in the board?

Naah, Asus usually makes good stuff. Like the Intel boards. New ones. This one might be a glitchy board , yes.

I have had nothing but issues with Asus boards. So when I rebuild...what should I get that actually works 'flawlessly?'

Boards that have a lot of high reviews on Newegg are usually safe bets.

[QUOTE=tratzzz;34144971]Naah, Asus usually makes good stuff. Like the Intel boards. New ones. This one might be a glitchy board , yes.[/QUOTE] ASUS [I]used[/I] to make good products, not anymore. I hear complaints about the newer UEFI boards all the time with settings not working, features being broken, random lockups and generally not behaving properly. I have a friend with an ASUS board that has a known problem where if you use a PCIe video card, you must either disable a serial or parallel port or the motherboard will randomly lock up, spontaneously reboot or suffer from "Video driver reset due to crash" constantly. Their LCD monitors aren't that great either. Terrible backlight bleed, uneven brightness levels, big problems with dead pixels and randomly dying completely.

[QUOTE=bohb;34158439]ASUS [I]used[/I] to make good products, not anymore. I hear complaints about the newer UEFI boards all the time with settings not working, features being broken, random lockups and generally not behaving properly. I have a friend with an ASUS board that has a known problem where if you use a PCIe video card, you must either disable a serial or parallel port or the motherboard will randomly lock up, spontaneously reboot or suffer from "Video driver reset due to crash" constantly. Their LCD monitors aren't that great either. Terrible backlight bleed, uneven brightness levels, big problems with dead pixels and randomly dying completely.[/QUOTE] Don't get me wrong, I have an Asus DVD Burner drive, and it works great, but their motherboards turned into cheap Taiwanese shit.

[QUOTE=faze;34145002]I have had nothing but issues with Asus boards. So when I rebuild...what should I get that actually works 'flawlessly?'[/QUOTE] I hope you had more then one board when you are saying that.

[QUOTE=taipan;34159825]I hope you had more then one board when you are saying that.[/QUOTE] I've had several. They all sucked.

Who's going to replace Asus stuff now that it's shit. As soon as I started seeing Asus stuff at best buy I knew it was a matter of time before they started being shit. That seems to be how it works for some reason.

[QUOTE=moesislack;34160462]Who's going to replace Asus stuff now that it's shit. As soon as I started seeing Asus stuff at best buy I knew it was a matter of time before they started being shit. That seems to be how it works for some reason.[/QUOTE] I've had good luck with Gigabyte boards actually.

[QUOTE=faze;34160513]I've had good luck with Gigabyte boards actually.[/QUOTE] Yeah I've only had one board but it's a few years old and it supports my amd 965 with shitty ddr2 ram.

[QUOTE=moesislack;34160570]Yeah I've only had one board but it's a few years old and it supports my amd 965 with shitty ddr2 ram.[/QUOTE] I have an AM2 CPU I believe. I need a new board though, this thing is shit.