andrewlorien

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ok, me again, i've got it working now

the sata drives WILL work standalone or under software raid, and you CAN boot from them. ie no raid drivers required, only the standard VIA drivers which are included with 2.6 kernels.

my GEIL DDR400 ram caused me the most trouble, i've got it working now by slowing it to 266MHz (133 in the bios) and setting the DIMM voltage to 2.8V (mb defaults to 2.6 and goes to 2.9 which causes lots of trouble)

took a month to work all that out, but it's very stable now!!!

andrewlorien

that's my original review above...
and i'm here now to report that i'm 18 months older and wiser.

i've realised that everyone has trouble with AMD64 ram compatibility, and i've just built another linux system with a very similar Gigabyte motherboard, which had similar problems and a MUCH less powerful BIOS.

so i'm giving the board a ten now, which should average my previous rating up to an 8, which is probably just about right.