Re: Motherboard recommendations

2007-04-04 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 20:52 -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: After doing some digging, it appears that the M57SLI board is not completely supported at this point. It needs a bios which I don't yet see on Gigabyte's site. See the following msg and replies:

Re: Motherboard recommendations

2007-03-31 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:09:23AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I just built a system with an ASUS M2N2-SLI motherboard and an AMD64 cpu. It looks very good so far. I have Etch running from a netinst. The ASUS installation CD contains a directory for Linux giving

Re: Motherboard recommendations

2007-03-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/30/07 22:44, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:09:23AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I just built a system with an ASUS M2N2-SLI motherboard and an AMD64 cpu. It looks very good so far. I have Etch running from a

Re: Motherboard recommendations

2007-03-31 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 12:01 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: ... On 03/30/07 22:44, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: ... Note to the OP. You want to use a few IDE devices. This board only has Am I misunderstanding? Why should he use multiple IDE devices if the mobo only has one IDE port? From the

Re: Motherboard recommendations

2007-03-31 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 12:01:12PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/30/07 22:44, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:09:23AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I just built a system with an ASUS M2N2-SLI motherboard and an AMD64 cpu. It looks very good so far. I have Etch

Re: Motherboard recommendations

2007-03-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/31/07 15:21, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: [snip] Asus EN7300GT Silent (nVidia GeForce 7300 GT), 245 MB video ram. That's (literally) an odd RAM number... - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him

Re: Motherboard recommendations

2007-03-31 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 07:16:49PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/31/07 15:21, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Asus EN7300GT Silent (nVidia GeForce 7300 GT), 245 MB video ram. That's (literally) an odd RAM number... So my keyboard doesn't have home keys; they all feel the same, and they're

Re: Motherboard recommendations

2007-03-30 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:09:23AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I just built a system with an ASUS M2N2-SLI motherboard and an AMD64 cpu. It looks very good so far. I have Etch running from a netinst. The ASUS installation CD contains a directory for Linux giving links to several

Re: Motherboard recommendations

2007-03-25 Thread Thomas H. George
I just built a system with an ASUS M2N2-SLI motherboard and an AMD64 cpu. It looks very good so far. I have Etch running from a netinst. The ASUS installation CD contains a directory for Linux giving links to several websites to setup audio and 64 bit operation. I haven't checked these out yet

Re: Motherboard recommendations

2007-03-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 02:12:10PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I am in the market for a new mobo too. My strategy with Newegg: AMD - Top Sellers - *Linux works review* - under $200 - ATX form: ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570

Re: Motherboard recommendations

2007-03-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:44:34PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Next time I build a machine, I'm going to see if it's possible for a x86-64 system in 64-bit to have 32-bit VMs (using xen, or whatever) and still get good performance. If that's possible, that's what I'll do. I've done that

Re: Motherboard recommendations

2007-03-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: This past week my motherboard died. Again. In fact, for the third time in three years. All were BioStar M7NCD Pro or Ultra boards. I think it is time for a change (especially since apparently only one place in the world has any and those are open box with only a

Re: Motherboard recommendations

2007-03-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 02:12:10PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I am in the market for a new mobo too. My strategy with Newegg: AMD - Top Sellers - *Linux works review* - under $200 - ATX form: ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570

Re: Motherboard recommendations

2007-03-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 19:34 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: This past week my motherboard died. Again. In fact, for the third time in three years. All were BioStar M7NCD Pro or Ultra boards. I think it is time for a change (especially since apparently only one place in the world has any

Re: Motherboard recommendations

2007-03-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 15:22 -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... Another addition to Hugo's list would be the Gigabyte board: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128014 Its bigger brother got a very good review on Tom's hardware as well, FWIW.

Motherboard recommendations

2007-03-23 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
This past week my motherboard died. Again. In fact, for the third time in three years. All were BioStar M7NCD Pro or Ultra boards. I think it is time for a change (especially since apparently only one place in the world has any and those are open box with only a 15-day warranty). So, I am

Re: Motherboard recommendations

2007-03-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/23/07 18:34, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: This past week my motherboard died. Again. In fact, for the third time in three years. All were BioStar M7NCD Pro or Ultra boards. I think it is time for a change (especially since apparently only

usb failing, need new motherboard recommendations

2007-01-15 Thread Thomas H. George
After struggling for a week with strange usb problems - posted xsane usb problem - I believe my problem is a hardware problem. One usb socket has failed: device not seen but device and hotplug ok if another usb socket is used. Since I only have motherboard usb sockets I am considering

Re: usb failing, need new motherboard recommendations

2007-01-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 09:28:01AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: After struggling for a week with strange usb problems - posted xsane usb problem - I believe my problem is a hardware problem. One usb socket has failed: device not seen but device and hotplug ok if another usb socket is

Motherboard recommendations?

2003-10-16 Thread Jay Monkman
I'm looking for a new motherboard, and am looking for recommendations. I'd like one that supports ECC memory, has builtin firewire and ethernet, and works with ATA133 drives. Any suggestions? Thanks. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature