PC Chips is the top selling mobo where I live, so I've installed Mandrake on more PC Chips boards than anything else. There are no particular problems -- at least not with the ones I've done -- so don't worry and just give it a go.
The only thing that didn't come on the Mandrake disks was the driver for the winmodem that comes on the board. Many folks on this list will tell you that you are better off buying a real modem, and I suppose they're right, but I had no trouble following the instructions for my PCTel onboard winmodem, which works better in Linux than it ever did in Windows. Mind you, I wish I had a decent motherboard and real hardware. But PC Chips installs and works no worse in Linux than it does in Windows. PC Chips puts their mobo model number in tiny print in one of the corners of the board right next to a screw hole. You're looking for something like M748LMRT, which is what the mobo I'm using now says. The PC Chips website is <http://www.pcchips.com.tw/>. They have a page for every mobo they've made, including the old discontinued stuff. The page for my board, for example, is <http://www.pcchips.com.tw/M748LMRT.html>, which I mention so that you can simply change my model number for yours and go straight to your board's page. There you will find a downloadable manual for your mobo and the latest BIOS to flash if you're a risk taker. In case your modem is a PCTel, <http://www.medres.ch/~jstifter/linux/pctel.html> will help you get it going in Linux. I hate to say it but the best hardware detection tool I know is the hardware manager in Windows. It's buried somewhere in My PC - Properties, and can be printed for reference. It's the last thing I did before wiping my Windows. Hope this helps. -- Warren Post, Registered Linux user 241394 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/
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