Re: [OT] Asus A7M266 motherboard and Debian
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Greg Norris wrote:
> > Anyway, I returned it to my vendor and I am now looking for another
> > motherboard. I thought it best to be conservative and go with a
> > motherboard based on the AMD 761 chipset, like the Abit KG7, since
> > these generally seem to be most stable and trouble-free under Linux,
> > even it they are now a little old. Since I have heard generally good
> > things about Asus, I'm now thinking about the Asus A7M266. Based on
> > searching with Google, it seems there are a fair number of people out
> > there using it, and no serious outstanding issues. There do seem to
> > be video (AGP?) problems with some video cards, but I'm hoping that
> > with my Matrox G450 I will be Ok.
>
> I had this very board until recently (G450 as well), running unstable
> (sid) with the 2.4.x kernel series. I didn't have any problems with
> this combination... unfortunately the power supply went bad and toasted
> it. :-(
Thanks. That's very helpful. I take it then you would not necessarily
recommend any more recent Asus board over this one? The only thing I was a
little concerned about was that it might be too old. But it is better to
have a working stable system that is a little old than a more modern
system that is not :-)
Faheem.
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