You have to be kidding me.

[unixronin]

I'm adding additional RAM to a computer for someone else.  It has an AOpen MX36LE-UN motherboard, and the provided manual is unclear about what the maximum memory capacity of the board is.  So I went to their site, figuring it'd be authoritative.  The site was also unclear; it says the maximum memory is 1GB, but also says that DIMMs from 8MB to 256MB are supported, yielding a maximum of 512MB.

"No worries," I figured, I'll just ask technical support.  They'll know."

So I just got the answer back from AOpen.

They don't know.

Yup, you heard it here first:  They don't know the correct memory capacity of their own product.  Pathetic, innit?

I'm just glad it's not my computer.  And that I don't own any AOpen motherboards.  And don't ever intend to, now, either.  They go into the lamer file along with MSI.

Comments

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

Please tell me you're joking.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I can't.... I don't lie to my friends.

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

*pale*

[arasirsul.livejournal.com]

This may be in part because AOpen is Acer's version of Acura: People didn't want to spend lots of money on a mere Honda, so Honda created Acura; people don't want to spend money on a mere Acer so they created AOpen.

Of course, people like Hondas... but an AOpen is still an Acer in disguise.

There are very few companies I will buy a motherboard from. Oddly, MSI is one of them... (Asus, Abit, and Tyan are the other three...)

-JDF

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I was not previously aware of that. It explains much. My opinion of Acer is poor indeed.

I have no personal experience of either Abit or Tyan (though I've heard good things about Tyan), but ASUS has never let me down, and the one GigaByte board I have has worked well so far. I've owned two MSI motherboards, on average -- I was traded a machne with an MSI board in it, and the board has been replaced twice by MSI after failing twice with bad capacitors, so I've had somewhere between one and three. The third seems to be going strong so far.