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Re: ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard: comments?



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Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 02:40:38PM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote:
> 
>>I have a A8N-SLI. I had intermittent problem with the nvidia ethernet
>>module. The forcedeth module stopped working and even rebooting the
>>computer was not solving the problem. Very nasty. Upgrading the bios (which
>>is a pain, if you don't have Windows installed) seems to have solved the
>>problem.
> 
> 
> I thought you just put the .bin bios file on a floppy or cd and hit
> alt+f2 at the bios.  Or does that not work on the A8N series boards (I
> am used to A7N series still).

That works like a charm, IF you've got floppy-drive :-)
And the board works here in 10 PCs flawless with debian sarge (and a
newer kernel).

Oh, and indeed, one board was changed because one of the NIC was dead
after some nasty power problems here.

> Len Sorensen

MfG,
Lars Schimmer
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