mortoray

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With any kernel newer than 2.6.10 the kernel fails to boot on this motherboard -- it hangs at the USB detection process.

Other notes:
-ATI's driver for the Radeon Xpress 200 do not include an install, require an older driver version, and do not support 3D acceleration
-Chipset (for IDE/SATA) requires 2.6.11 or newer kernel to work (which of course comes to the hang bug however)

Since it cannot boot I'm giving it a "poor" rating.

ericzundel

Summary: This motherboard "works" but there are still some kinks I can't work out that seem to be hardware related.

I installed this system with an AMD64 3000+ an IDE DVD+/-RW drive and a single SATA hard drive. The original installation attempt was with Fedora Core 3 and failed to recognize the SATA hard drive.

I installed with Fedora Core 4 X86_64 distribution and the install went pretty well. It recognized the hard drive, USB and even the sound. My Brother 5140 Laser printer and camera is connected via USB and both work well (no hangs on boot for me.)

The onboard video is not recognized, but works with the VESA driver. If you can be satisfied with that, (maybe a server motherboard back in a machine room) fine, but otherwise, you'll need to add a video card. I added an ATI X300 and am very happy with it.

My biggest gripes left are:

- The real time clock seems to run at "double speed". XNTP can't keep it synced. I rebooted the computer some time last week. Today is Monday , but my clock says it is Friday...

- It occasionallly locks up - espeically when exiting X or trying to reboot the machine.