I only hope I can edit this post later, so I can update on a progresss... Why isnt it a wiki???

I bought this motherboard for a media center PC to attach to my LCD HDTV. It's a decent board with a good integrated graphics card, DVI & SPDIF outputs, 64-bit etc.

Here is wisdom i gathered so far:
- Disable MMIO in bios, it won't work
- You must boot with "noapic nolapic" options for a "generic" kernel to work. It will "work" enough for you to install a base system - ide will be very slow, interrupts will get lost etc.
- Build a custom kernel as soon as you can. APIC will work fine (and has to be enabled back) on a custom built kernel.
- ACPI DSDT is broken. I was unable to dump/dfix it yet, currently working on it...
- The only display driver that works is an ATI propritary driver. Haven't installed it yet...

Hardware / drivers:

ide - ATI IXP PCI busmaster DMA
sata - SCSI, Silicon image 3112
nic - Realtek 8139too

Overall - so far it seems to be a good motherboard, the only thing that it is a new model gives a lot of headache...

Hello!

I bought same motherboard and it seems there are problems.
(kernel 2.6.15.3 for x86 32bit)

When i disable APIC in BIOS Linux works well and can access to PCI devices (NIC, etc.) But WindowsXP32 doesn't boot and system can't boot from cdrom.
(in this case Linux compiled with disabled APIC)

And when APIC in BIOS is enabled Linux can't access to PCI devices. (even APIC is enabled in kernel)

Could you tell me what kernel boot options (and kernel configuration, BIOS options related to APIC) can help in this situation? Have you some problems with this board?

Thank you!

Hello. My motherboard is not the same, but I had the same problem when trying to install various Linux distributions. As specified above in this thread, you have to boot with the following options:

noapic acpi=off

Once started the installer you can thus install your Linux. Take care to modify the Lilo (or Grub) boot option, specifiyng the same options.
Fulcro

peavey (at) tiscali (dot) it

Installing Linux was a problem, but noapic kernel option allowed to install Fedora Core. Fedora Core 5 test 2 installation booted without noapic switch, but haged on the package selection (might be related to mb or not).
Soundcard wasn't found with original kernel. After updating kernel, system finds it but it doesn't work yet.

All the other parts seem to work out of the box.