Intel DG45ID Review

This is a TERRIBLE motherboard. It's like the designers never even used it. For instance I DARE you to install the RAID drivers on WinXP or Windows 2000/2003. YOU CAN'T BECAUSE IT DOESN'T HAVE A FLOPPY AND IT DOES NOT EMULATE ONE PROPERLY WITH USB!

Not to mention EVERY person that has ever attempted to upgrade the BIOS on this POS quickly found it fries the BIOS every time. You HAVE to do a recovery to upgrade the BIOS. Again, they designers clearly never even used their own product. They just threw together some horrible design and it off to Taiwan. Then they sold the results without even plugging them in to see if you can install an OS on them.

So, HORRIBLE motherboard do NOT buy! And if you see one call the cops because someone just got robbed.

Sorry to anyone that feels they have problems with this board as I can't agree, I have installed many of these boards and they run perfectly, this board wasn't designed for WinXP or prior, it was designed for Vista or later. In saying this you can load the RAID drivers onto a boot CD quite easily and load XP or Server 2003 and the board works well, I don't uderstand why people are so reluctant to move into the future with operating systems, Vista was released in 2006, the small issues that it had when released have been resolved so why put XP or 2000 on a new board with all these bells an whistles - I have Server 2008, SBS 2008 and Vista running perfectly on these boards (clients that want server features but have few staff and don't want the expense of a server board) I am generally reluctant to use a desktop board in a server but this board is one that has proven itself to me and I have no hesitation in recommending it.