Hello all,

I have a question regarding compatibility between linux and motherboards. I'm currently running WinXP/RH 9.0 dual boot with an old motherboard that came with one of my previous store bought PC's. I'm hoping to upgrade the motherboard to a more powerful one. My concern is that both the boards I'm looking at have onboard audio and ehternet. Is there any way I can figure out if my linux installation will recognize these components shy of buying them and trying them? If your curious, I'm interested in the Soyo KT 600 Dragon plus and the ASUS A7V600. Thanks in advance.

-UTK

You can gather some information and compare. First, determine what chipset your motherboard candidates have for audio and ethernet. Next, look at the config file for your present kernel, if you'll use the same kernel version. If support is in there for your ethernet chipset, you should be okay. And look at the ALSA site for support of the audio chipset. It may also be in your kernel config file. If everything on the new mobo's have support, you should be okay.

You can also check by searching LQ, Google, Google/Linux, and the HCL button at the top of this page.

I built a new computer with ASUS A7V600 this week. So far it works ok except one problem with 3c940 . I downloaded the latest driver from ASUS website, compiled ok but could not load it under Mandrake 9.2. It was late night and my brain was bagging me to give it some rest, so there might be some error or something I couldn't catch. :-) . According to other's post it should work without problem with Mandrake 9.2.

One very good thing of this mother board with Athlon XP 2500+(barton core, boxed version) is that you don't need any extra work to overclock the cpu. Simply change the system clock speed to 200MHz then it becomes 3200+. So far so good. I tested memory using Memtest 3.84(?) about 5 hours with overclocked configuration and there was no problem. I installed Windows 2000 and Mandrake 9.2 with overclocked cpu, no problem at all. This is awesome!!

As a reference
ASUS A7V600, Athlon XP 2500+ (barton core, boxed version), 2 x Kingmax PC3200(DDR 400) 512MB , Western Digital 80 GB HDD(8MB buffer, special edition), Gigabyte Radeon 9200 VGA.

PS : If you tweak the timing of the memory in BIOS you can improve the memory performance about 5%. For me 2-3-3-7 works in steady. BUT BE CARE FULL when you tweak the memory timing. It won't boot, you cannot even get in the bios setup screen, if something goes wrong. Reseting the flash memory didn't help to bring it alive for me.

im thinking of building the same but i am lookin at MSI K7N2 Delta-L Mainboard. i have saved what little money i can since the age of 10, it's five years later and i have 400 ( sorry my parents don't care too much about me)

hey i want to know, i am thinking of buying a scsi drive, since i already have a 20GB and 200GB, I already have the controller card from my 200. Can I use a ATA133 Cable for my scsi hard drive?

Hi zetusl,

You can not use ATA133 cable with SCSI hard drive. SCSI and ATA are not compatible.

then what would i have to use, can you lead me to a 0-knowledge tutorial on the matter?

That information will be in both your motherboard manual, and the information that comes with the hard drive.

Here is some information about SCSI.
http://fieldhome.net:9080/scsi_faq/s...tml#Generic020

For ATA or IDE you don't need to care much about it.

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