Re: motherboard choice
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:47, Kevin Coyner banged a keyboard:
Kevin, much thanks for that, I wanted to get a board that I can put a 3+Ghz
(putting a 2.8 in this one) chip in later on so wanted to go for this board,
now I will [:P
cheers Peter van der Male
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 01:17:19AM +1100, mobtek mobtekl wrote......
>
> > Hi all, looking at motherboards for a new system, anyone installed
> > debian on a box with an ASUS P4PE i845PE P4 motherboard?
>
> Yes. I installed Debian 3.0 on an Asus P4PE with the 845PE chipset back
> in Nov/Dec on my son's machine. No problems except this board had the
> built-in Gigabit ethernet, so I wasn't able to get it connected to our
> LAN. At that time the standard Debian installation didn't seem to
> support the 1G/sec ethernet. So I left it as an unresolved issue since
> my son typically uses Windows so he can play certain games.
>
> I have since looked at a more recent Debian installation disk and if I'm
> not mistaken, there is now a mod for the Gigabit. Will give it another
> go with the new installation disk in a week or two when time permits.
> But other than that, Debian seems to run just fine on the P4PE.
>
> Kevin
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