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PC Chips M848ALU (V2.1)
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Description: PC Chips M848ALU (V2.1) ATX Motherboard:

Supports all Athlon, AthlonXP, Sempron, Duron
FSB 400/333/266 MHz
Chipset SiS748/963L
Memory Maximum: 3GB
1 x AGP 8X
5 x PCI
LAN VIA VT6103L 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet PHY
Audio CMI9739A compliant with AC97 2.2 specification
IDE 2 x UltraDMA 133/100/66
4 x USB 2.0 Ports
1 x RJ 45 Port
1 x Audio I/O (Line-in, Line-out and Mic-in)
CPU FAN and two additional FAN headers
Supports Plug and Play 1.0A, APM 1.2, Multi Boot, DMI
Full support for ACPI revision 1.0 specification
ATX Form Factor, 305*190mm
Keywords: pcchips mainboard motherboard sis sis748 budget k7 athlon athlonxp sempron duron
Chipset: SIS 748/963L


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Old 05-14-2005, 04:39 AM   #1
 
Registered: Dec 1969
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.4, 2.6
Distribution: Debian sarge, Knoppix 3.6, Knoppix 3.8.1



Great budget MoBo.
Very unproblematic to install.
All hardware detected.
 
Old 10-06-2006, 02:41 PM   #2
stapes
 
Registered: Aug 2006
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Kernel (uname -r): stapes
Distribution: Fedora Core


Hi. I am trying to use this product with Fedora Core. Where can I get drivers for the motherboard? PC Chips don't seem to offer any?
 
Old 01-03-2007, 11:07 PM   #3
swede_x
 
Registered: Dec 2006
Distribution: Fedora Core X
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
Distribution: Fedora Core 6


No problems so far, been using it for about a year. Very stable.
 
Old 02-10-2007, 10:15 AM   #4
ibmercurial
 
Registered: Sep 2004
Distribution: Slackware 10.2
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.31 bareacpi.i
Distribution: Slackware 10.2


I have the m848A rv 5.
This board runs as well as one can expect a $40.00 mobo to run. Everything works. I had to play with the ddr/cas settings to make the board run stable, with 768Mb kinston pc2700, Athlon xp 2200, pny geforce 440. 400 watt powerlink psu.
 
Old 03-22-2008, 07:03 PM   #5
Takla
 
Registered: Aug 2006
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 188

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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.22-1-mepis-smp
Distribution: antiX M7 Lysistrata


I had this M848ALU (V2.1) motherboard for I think 4 years, maybe 5. Everything works, nothing ever goes wrong. Using Athlon XP 2700 and 2 x 512MB Kingmax DDR 400 and nvidia geforce 6200, 2 hard drives, 2 optical drives, floppy drive, extra USB 2.0 ports, fans, variable speed fan controllers, audigy sound card with firewire out. I spent far more on the Thermaltake power supply than the board itself. I think the board cost me about 25 GBP new and the PSU about 60. I'd buy an ECS/PCChips board again, not exciting and not really overclockable but very stable and incredibly cheap, though it looks like this thing might go on forever so will never need replacing :-) It's fine with Linux kernel since I bought it, full support, no issues.
 




  



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