Gustin Johnson wrote: > I had a catastrophic motherboard failure earlier today, and so I was > forced to press my M2A-vm HDMI into service on my file server. > > The good news is that I spent a big part of my day on this hardware. > The bad news is that it still does not really work. I will be buying a > different board ASAP as this thing is a piece of crap. I can barely get > it to boot a Ubuntu kernel and even then it is fragile (not surprising > given the options I had to use to get it to boot). I was also never > able to get it to recognize my nVidia 7100GS, it always used the > Internal ATI regardless of the BIOS settings.
A friend will buy my M2A-VM HDMI and he knows what he will do. He makes Windows-Multimedia-Computers with this board. I asked him because of the problem you has got with the NVidia. He says that the BIOS is worse, but it's possible to change the card. He has to use a PCIex card for one Windows-Multimedia-Computer. He didn't know exactly what he did, to enable the PCIex graphics, but he can remember that he has to change more than just one setting and also that the monitor has to be connected and turned on, when turning on the computer. If there isn't the monitor ready when turning on the computer, the BIOS disables the PCIex card and enables the on-board graphics. Now I must find out, which AM2 socket mobo for less money will be fine with 64 Studio. I will hold the M2A-VM HDMI until I know another board. I can't remember if here where some tips from the list for cheap AM2 socket mobos.
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