Pros: Board has a lot of nice features; sata connectors,hdmi hookup, etc

Cons: Built this machine using an AMD Phenom, 4 gigs of Mushkin Ram, a Maxtor sata drive (Wiped clean, then fresh install of Win 7 64), sata DVD/CD drive. Machine runs well, until it needs to be rebooted, then you get no video after the Win start screen.

The bios id page loads, then the win start logo loads, then the video drops out and you get a blank screen.

Tried updating to the latest bios to no avail.

Pros: When it works, great. The onboard video is what I was looking for, given I am using in a headless server.

Cons: 1st board: everything worked except onboard lan. Tried to upgrade bios using ASUS EZ Flash 2 utility in bios. Flash reported success, but board then would not post, no beeps, nothing. Did the usual remove battery, jumpers, nothing. RMA'd.

2nd board: everything worked, even onboard lan. Left on for 2 days, everything fine. Turned off. Next day, turned on (or tried to). Board dead - no beeps, no boot screen, nothing. The now usual jumper/remove battery procedure, nothing. Not even a chance to upgrade bios given no post. RMAing again. Hopefully 3rd times the charm.

Note: Query to ASUS about lan produced response that driver not included for WHS2003, suggesting I switch to XP/Vista/Win7. This even though Maximum PC magazine recommended this very board for use in a home server, an article I was following. And proof it does work was that the board, and lan, did work for 2 days, until I made the dire mistake of turning it off.

Other Thoughts: Using Athlon X2 245, socket am3, Corsair
DDR2 Dominator 1066 (2 x 1gb)

Board also provides a greater appreciation of buying a pre-built system.

Pros: None.

Cons: Bought this MOBO and found it to be DEAD ON ARRIVAL. The board's light would come on but no beep, no bleep... nothing! I removed the battery to clear the cmos overnight and nothing... I removed it and placed it on cardboard to ensure that the board was not shorting with the case... nothing. I RMA'd this baby and I am now waiting for the next one... I will flash the BIO if I get video this time.... wish me luck!

Pros: Once (IF) you get it working, seems like a really nice board.

Cons: Bought a total of 4 M4A78 series boards. First 3 would only give a picture until you tried to change the BIOS settings. Then no more screen available. Emails and calls to ASUS only gave more frustration (must RMA, no one else is having this trouble, etc.). The troubleshooting steps recommended by them did not work. Finally in a fit of frustration I removed the CMOS battery and left it out overnight. Started it up and got a screen. Reset the BIOS and restarted--no picture. This time I took out the battery and left it out for about 15 minutes. I got a picture so I tried doing what some had suggested and updated the BIOS using the program in the BIOS. IT WORKED!! Now all 4 boards are working.

Other Thoughts: Good luck. Hopefully the board will work out of the box, but if it doesn't try the above.

Was using AM3 processors 945 and 955, 2 GB RAM.
Not sure what is happening at ASUS, but they don't seem quite up to the products that I have purchased over the last about 10 years--an average of over 100 boards a year. Customer service is way down, and reliability even more so. Hope they get back on track.

Pros: Does everything i need it too.
Game, Video, Music, Internet, Etc.
Everything worked out of the box, happy for that as always.

Cons: None for me, because when you shop for a MOBO you get exactly what you want, and nothing you don't witch is what i got.
You will not be playing Crysis on the intergrated, lets be claer on that, Plants Vs. Zombies, a PS2 emulator, WoW, thats about it.

Also, I found out that the DVI is a full digital DVI-D, a DVI to VGA adapter like you get with a video card will not fit, <diff sized pins> DVI-D you need a full digital monitor, it will not support VGA to my knowledge.

So if you were thinking Dual View in the intergrated, you would need 1 VGA and 1 Digital, not sure on VGA and HDMI, pretty sure HDMI is full digital.

Whatever the case, at least you know about the DVI-D.

Other Thoughts: If you get this board and a phenom Proc, BE AWARE you may need BIOS update.
It's so easy. get a floppy, or a USB drive. Go to:
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=EbXqq06yxpJwlABf&templete=2
>Downloads > OS > BIOS.
Get the latest BISO, put them on your floppy, usb drive.
Get everything else ready, OS disc USB drive, ECT.
During POST hit <ALT> <F2> to enter ASUS EZ Flash, navigate to your BIOS file, and it dose the rest.

If you can't get a POST, Clear CMOS, this can be done by moving the jumper or removing the battery <CAREFULLY!> for a few mins, power on again and be hitting <ALT> <F2> as you go, and hopefully you will POST into the EZ Flash before the CMOS farts on the Proc lol.

If still no post, well then, check cables, RAM seating, PSU, make sure the MOBO is not grounding out, try to be sure to POST with as little unnecessary hardware as possible.
AND GOOD LUCK!

Specs.
OCZ RAM
Phenom II X2 3.1 Black Ed.

Pros: -price
-supports AM3
-blue heatsinks look cool

Cons: says that it supports AM3 CPUs, doesn`t mention anywhere that it does so AFTER a BIOS update. mixed and matched parts for 2 hours when i got my 955. can be a real pain in the bottom.

Other Thoughts: great after you get the BIOS updates out of the way.

Pros: while it worked, it was dandy

Cons: after about 4 months the pci bus died out, making it almost useless. and the on board graphics stopped working also, like my motherboard hates me seeing my desktop or something.

Pros: I Love this board! It has not let me down yet. Not one time. I bought this board as a replacement for an old Asus. My old board burned out. Don't know how, don't really care how, all I know is I replace the old one with this one and it works wonderfully. Oh, Asus tech support answered ALL of my questions when I had questions about processor compatibility.

Cons: None so far

Other Thoughts: I have no beef with Asus.

Pros: while it worked it was great

Cons: i had the same problem JIM 236, after about 4 or 5 months, it stopped working, for no reason at all. but what really bugs me is that i was not even using on board video, i had a card. and the card works fine, i even tried it in a different pc.

Other Thoughts: asus really fell threw with this one. i used to have alot of faith in them, but not so much anymore.

Pros: Works very well. Easy to install (well kinda).

Cons: The I/O shield was a pain in the behind! I literally bled to get this into my system. The I/O shield refused to fit with the board, and cut my both thumbs & index fingers..

Other Thoughts: I ended up just taking out the I/O shield and taping it outside the motherboard. For the price, I would bleed again though! :O