Best motherboard & cpu for linux?

drum · 02-15-2005, 04:25 AM

Hi,
can someone advise me on a good combination of Motherbaord and cpu (also video card) which works really well with linux distro's please?
I'm having trouble with my Asus P4P800X and Celeron D 2.66 and Gigabyte Nvidia Geoforce Fx 5200 video card.
This combination freezes everything at various times with different distro's.
Thanks

drum

overlord73 · 02-15-2005, 04:49 AM

I would take a look on ur hardware! especially ur ram...
anything o´clocked?..

bobbens · 02-15-2005, 09:36 AM

My motherboard also randomly freezes unless you add "noapic nolapic" to the grub loader. This is because my mobo has problems with the apic stuff, but once you pass this by it works great. Check www.google.com/linux for your mobo and see if you need some extra boot parameters. BTW, i'm using an a7n8x-x with amd 2600+. Good luck.

drum · 02-15-2005, 11:25 PM

Thanks guys,
I edted the grub list, added noapic nolapic and simply 3.3 test 01 with the 2.4 kernel lasted for about an hour before feezing up. As usual.
Any more ideas?
regards
drum

Electro · 02-16-2005, 02:02 AM

* Use 2.3 nanosecond (approximately 433 MHz) ECC or non-ECC memory if you can.
* Enable fail-safe settings in the BIOS.
* Add more fans.
* Use wet-sand paper and sand the bottom of heatsink to get a nice smooth and level surface. You do not need to polish after you sand the heatsink.
* Buy a better power supply like from Enermax, Power & Cooling, Zalman.

overlord73 · 02-16-2005, 02:46 AM

--> RAM

drum · 02-16-2005, 03:01 AM

Thanks for all the help.
I'll check it all out.
If I wet sand the heat sink do I take off the thermal paste?
then put more back on after sanding?
Regards
drum