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sirra462 · 12-11-2003, 04:25 PM

Installed SuSE 9 beautifully, the only problem was with the Nvidia onboard LAN not being recognized, so I lowered the score for that. Everything else is recognized as should be.

ashayh · 03-01-2004, 06:07 PM

Rock stable with 2.6.1 kernel.

Onboard sound works nicely with ALSA.

No problems with onboard LAN . I havent used the onboard Lan a lot though, I have a Realtek RTL8169 Gigabit card which also works with the 2.6.1 kernel with no problems whatsoever.

I'm using 2x256MB corsair Ram, a Pixelview Nvidia 5200 128MB, and a 160GB Maxtor 6Y160P0.

This computer is on for days at a stretch. I havent had any problem since I bought it in december.

This board is quite feature full and also has decent overclocking options.

e1000 · 04-19-2004, 12:16 AM

the Ethernet works great with the Nvidia binary drivers, it works equally well with the opensource drivers from here, these are applied via a kernel patch.

the onboard sound is not beautifull, but it works works beautifully with the alsa driver 'snd-intel8x0'.

lastly, there is no onboard video (thankfully), so your going to have to force your selfe to go ahead and buy a nice AGP card, Oh the agony!!

I give it an 9 out of 10 only because the ethernet will not work on a vanilla kernel.

pilot1 · 09-21-2004, 03:18 PM

Everything works perfectly with both the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.
Great board, and great price.