one of my systems died on me. icon_sad.gif
[ poor old celeron @600MHz couldn't take the power surges from the power failures, it died. ]

so silly me goes out and buys a "white box" system from a local retailer.

total cash spent was $588.73 CDN [ about $500.00 US ]

AMD AM2 3800+ cpu
Foxconn k8m890 motherboard
Liteon 16x dvd/rw dual layer [ black ]
Wd Sata 250GB 8mb cache @ 7200rpm
512MB DDR2 4200 ( 533MHz )
Asus Geforce PCX6200TC video
ob 10/100 nic
Coolmax v400 power supply
Tsunami speakers
generic keyboard and mouse [ black ]
ob sound
[ actually has ob video as well as the external card ]
6 USB ports, with support for 8
17" case with front usb and audio [ black ]

since the new hardware will only have linux on it, I did a test install of three main distros to test hardware compatability.
Mandriva 2007, everything worked out of the box.
[ ok, I had to change the nic to use a static ip instead of dhcp, but the device worked once that was done ]
fedora core 6, everything worked
Suse 10.1 second stage install finished off, and it locked up, would NOT boot.

I have the complete device listing from a running linux, which includes chipset information.
the listing is 16 letter size pages long due to being a list format.
This hardware is currently getting Linux From Scratch built onto it.

I would post the full chipset data, but at it's size it may be to large for the script to allow.

Do you have temp monitoring, fan sensors working ok with that board? I have a foxconn in a spare machine, am at work so not sure of the model which is actually a winfast or some such and truly generic. Never did get sensors working right on it. The values are so wonky there is no way to figure what goes with what or what offsets to use.

It hasn't been a problem otherwise except it refused to boot with a SCSI card for the scanner before switching slots a few times. Windows freaks out over the scsi sometimes still but Linux (debian) handles that fine, probably due to IRQ assigment (98SE).

Nishtya,
I didn't check the sensors at all with a complete distro on it.
never though about it.
but yup, the "winfast" mobo is what this one is. Te real problem is the lack of linux support for bios updates.
you have to have winxp to install a bios update from Foxconn.

since this is a sata board, it has scsi built into it completely, and sda is the hard drive, so the scsi is definately a windows issue. you aren't the first person I've heard about having problems with scanner scsi cards in windows. I had scsi problems on one system, even linux didn't like scsi on this system. every distro would lock during boot if I had any scsi devices attached. [ seems the bios was anti scsi ]

I did add a case mount fan I had to the box before I even powered it up, so I'm pretty sure this system won't overheat, which is why I wasn't worried about the sensor data.

give me a couple of weeks to get lfs built onto it, and I'll make sure I get the sensor readings working as part of it so I can post version(s) and conf info for you.

I was a bit suprised at the chipset data with it, most of the chipsets are around 6 years old or more. While this is great for linux support of the hardware, it's suprising that a new board would still be using them.