[NTLUG:Discuss] (somewhat OT) AMD mobo/chipset recommendations?

[Greg Edwards]

Darin W. Smith wrote:
> I have a dying drive on my box at home, and the prospect of replacing it 
> has led me to consider upgrading other parts of the system...
> 
> So, I'm looking for recommendations and warnings for/against motherboards.
> 

> 
> I see the BioStar M7VIT, Epox 8RDA+, and A-Open AK79D-1394 and the Asus 
> A7N8X Deluxe
> 
> I guess my biggest worry is the Nforce2 chipset on some of these 
> boards.  Anybody here using it?  Experiences?
> 

At the moment I cannot recommend the ASUS A7N8X MB, even though I'd like 
to.  I've grown fond of ASUS products but this one has soured me.

I bought 2 of these in Jan & Feb and still can't get it working.  I run 
Mandrake and 9.0 would not work with the nForce2 chipset without jumping 
through a bunch of kernel hacking hoops.  Mandrake 9.1 is working better 
but I'm still having problems.  The system is simply not stable.

I'm going to have to reinstall the system for about the 5th time because 
it crashed and tossed it's cookies on the superblock.  I ended up with 
about 80 files in lost+found after the last crash and now I've got a 
bunch of programs that are missing parts.

When the system is running it's really nice, but I just can't count on it.

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