[newbie] finally going for it

[walt]

I have enough of mandrake 9.0 working to the point where I can switch it to my main hard drive and just have winxp on my smaller drive and use linux almost exclusively. I do have to have some win programs and once I find comparable replacements, win xp will go completely. I do have to get a new motherboard though because this one will not let me install mandrake 9.0 without using an older kernel. I also can not use my agp vid card for some reason. It has nothing to do with linux, it is the motherboard. I have the elitegroup k7vmm and it is junk!!!  I have an AMD Duron 1.2 GHz processor. Any suggestions as to what I should get? I do not want any built in video or sound or lan LOL   walt