[NTLUG:Discuss] (somewhat OT) AMD mobo/chipset recommendations?

[Greg Edwards]

Paul Drew wrote:
> Howdy,
> Here are the Dragon's on the Soyo site, and it does say it has raid.
> 

I may have to withdraw my reservations about the ASUS A7N8X that I made 
earlier.  Yesterday I was thinking about all of the things that I've 
tried in the process of getting this board working.

Several issues seem to change depending on the USB devices connected. 
Well this case has 2 USB ports on the front of the case that I had 
connected to the board.  Last night I disconnected them and reinstalled 
Mandrake 9.1.  I've already found 1 issue that has disappeared.  I was 
having a problem where it would lock up during the boot sequence anytime 
that I powered down.  The next boot (after a reset) would be fine but 
would need to do an fsck and cleanup the mess.  That problem seems to be 
gone.

So far no other system crashes, but it's only been about 10 hours. 
There is no doubt about this boards performance, it simply cooks.  Even 
StarOffice starts in a reasonable amount of time ;)  I'm interested to 
see what the APIC features bring down the line when the Linux kernel 
catches up.

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