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This motherboard seems to work very well with the slackware distro 8.1 The CPU speed is 1,533mhz and I have 256MB of ram on the system. All important devices were detected on installation / bootup. These devices include [Built in Network card, IDE hard disks, IDE secondary CDRom drive] I'm using an ATI all in wonder video card PCI version with the TV tunner thing. I had to configure XF86Config for KDE to work with the monitor hrz and vertical sync ranges but besides that its worked fine.


The built in Cmedia sound card was not autodetected, it seems some people have trouble with this card but all that was needed to get it recognized was doing 'modeprobe ac97' and my sound worked them. The motherboard supports IDE and SCSI right on the board, along with 2 built in USB, and 2 interal pins on motherboard addon.

I bought this board used from a friend, so that price is not retail.
I've had the system running straight for 7 days now and no trouble
and no reboot needed.

I seem to be having some issues with the built-in power management functions of the board, although it worked in Windows98 just fine. I think the problem lies in that APM is not install in the kernel...

blackbones

Having previously given this MB a poor rating I now find that it is compatible. I've only given it a 7/10 though because of the fix req'd in the BIOS. I will amend this if it turns out that the fix was req'd due to my mmy not being 'quality' PC2100.

I have now successfully installed Suse7.3 Pro, SLES9, and RH9 on my PC with this MB. There was a problem with RH9 not recognising the sound card, but I've yet to follow up on that.

The clincher to getting the installs to work was to go into BIOS and "Load Fail Safe Defaults". I had only previously changed the BIOS settings to those 'correct' for my processor and memory, i.e. not overclocked anything. Obviously not ideal that the MB is running at sub-optimal performance, but at least it is running.

dyn0myte

CPU-1.6GHZ- I upgraded the processor, no problem.
LAN-Ran the "Network" cmd and it found it without a hitch.
Sound- Alsa told me it was muted but it wasn't.
Video-Recognized my ATI Radeon 128 mb card. once i changed it in the bios.
Raid-I used both the bare.i and ataraid.i kernels and it found my hard drive on IDE 3 And 4 with no problem. not to mention IDE 1 and 2. I even booted the cd off the raid.
USB-There are 6 usb ports on this board. and they all work!
RAM- 1.5GB Crucial PC 2100- no issues here.

I can't say enough about this board. It also has a built-in safety so if you forget to plug in the processor fan it won't boot. Its too bad Soyo is going away from consumer retail. my next will be the KT880.

Dyn0

loyalbarber

I had no trouble whatsoever with this motherboard. I have installed Ubuntu, PCLOS, and Minix on this system and had no issues with any of them. All recognized the network, sound, and the IDE drives including those running on a promise controller. I have had to use software RAID since the promise setup is not true hardware RAID, but this old motherboard just keeps on going.
HW: AMD Athlon XP 1700+
512 MB RAM
2 80 GB IDE disks in RAID 0
HP DVD burner
Various USB drives: all recognized immediately.