slackware works on that board.

and nice mobo btw its a great overclocker.

Think again. I'm using an M2N with Slamd64 and it is ABSOLUTELY compatible with Linux.

Which M2N? Mine was the M2N-E SLI nForce 500 and the sound doesn't work. There are many versions: M2N, M2N-E and M2N-E SLI. At least.

Thanks for pointing that out- in my haste to defend Asus boards I neglected to note that I use an M2N-E.

I recently purchased a new system. And I am having the same problems.
System will not stay up
Tweaked BIOS (Updated to latest released version)
Stopped unneeded services.
It is appearing that it hangs when lots of data are transferred either locally or thru 1000Mb network.

Tried to move 20Gb off of IDE drive it hangs.
but moved 4GB ISO without trouble.

CPU temps 45C, surprising very Cool air blows out from case
Reseated memory, graphics, cpu


ASUS M2n-SLi deluxe
AMD - 5000 X2 65 Watt
ASUS - 7300GT Video Card
thermaltake 500W PS
2 - 1Gb Corsair Ram



7 Hard Disk Drives
SATA
2 used for nvRaid 1 (OS)
4 used a independent Disks

IDE
1 used as independent disk

2 network cards
1 public 100mb link
1 private 1000Mb link

os : centos 5.1

Linux belgarion 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Wed Mar 5 11:37:38 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Debating on reinstalling as 32bit, to see if architecture is cause. thoughts?

UPDATE:
I saw memory errors during memtest86 and after pulling the memory I realized that i mixed up memory (still corsair XMS2 but with different timings)
I moved it from an XP system but never checked. My stupidity never ceases to amaze me. I reseated the memory about 3 times.

reran memtest for 90 minutes and 2 passes no errors.
large data moves showed no issues.