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ASUS A7N8X-VM/400
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1 59115 09-29-2004
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100% of reviewers None indicated 9.0



Description: I got this new mobo recently to setup a new Mandrake 10 Official desktop, and endured a frustrating and fruitless week trying to get it to accept my RAM.

I tried using Kingston DDR333 and Geil DDR400 RAM (on separate times, not together) that worked fine on other boards. But on this board, the machine simply froze a few seconds after loading KDE. It even froze a few times during installation. Looks like it only works with the recommended RAM brands listed on the Asus website. Flashing with the latest BIOS did not help.

BIOS options were very limited, compared to the Gigabyte mobos I'm used to.

This mobo was not worth the headache. In the end, I returned it to the shop and got a Gigabyte GA-7N400-L which worked great.
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Old 09-29-2004, 10:59 AM   #1
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Registered: Jun 2004
Distribution: SuSE 9.1/9.2/9.3 Pro, OpenSuSE 10.0, 10.1, Currently 10.2 32&64 bit
Posts: 101

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.5-7.108-default
Distribution: SuSE 9.1 Pro



Runs great. Install was a snap, but that's more to do with SuSE than the mobo. It runs fast and stable... it's only crashed once and that was just a locked screen, the mouse still moved- so it wasn't a hard lock. Hasn't happened since. Don't need any special drivers or anything... What can I say? It just works. The only thing I can say is that I wish it had RAID or even SATA and RAID. But those are available on it's cousins.
The onboard graphics are good as far as onboard graphics go, it's a GF4 MX 400 chipset with shared RAM that you can adjust, which is one of my favorite things about this board. it'll go up to 128MB, which can boost performance a bit.
 




  



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