This past week my motherboard died. Again. In fact, for the third time in three years. All were BioStar M7NCD Pro or Ultra boards. I think it is time for a change (especially since apparently only one place in the world has any and those are open box with only a 15-day warranty). So, I am looking for recommondations on a new motherboard (and processor and memory, while we're at it). I have searched the list archives, but the most recent threads discussing different motherboards were from 2004. I am planning on running either 32-bit or 64-bit (doesn't make that much difference to me). I'd like to start with 2 GB RAM (maybe going to 4 GB later on), so 64-bit might be better. The hard drives currently have Sarge installed. However, I think that I may have lost some data in the failure and will likely do a clean install of Etch. The components which I currently have that I'd like to carry over are: - AGP nVidia GeForce 5900 (unless there's good dual-head onboard video) - 3Com PCI NIC (for dual-homed network, unless dual-LAN is available) - 2 x IDE HDDs - 1 x IDE DVD-ROM & 1 x IDE DVD+-RW The other parts (Athlon XP CPU and 184-pin DDR memory), I imagine are a loss. I was actually hoping to get another M7NCD Ultra (as I have the other times it has failed) so that I could reuse everything. At this point, I'll go for a new board. The case I have is an Antec with a 300W power supply, but I can upgrade the case and/or power supply if necessary. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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