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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=218431320-16022007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Nice to know ... thanks for
posting.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> centos-bounces@centos.org
[mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>David
Baker<BR><B>Sent:</B> February 16, 2007 1:22 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
centos@centos.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [CentOS] ASUS M2V mobo
issues<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">We have 4 systems supported by ASUS M2V mobos with AMD2
cpus on board. No we haven’t gotten CentOS of any flavor to work
yet. Yes, we did load Fedora Core 6 and it worked, with respect to the
SATA driver only. There is a RAID, Audio and LAN driver for Linux that
comes on the M2V mobo CD. The audio driver installs and works fine on FC6.
I’ve read many of the messages with respect to setting up the LAN
driver. We’ve had the best success with the 1.0.4.x Attansic driver being
provided by Jay Cliburn (kernel 2.6.18.x). He has been very helpful with
this. He has a 2.x driver which doesn’t appear to work with the 2.6.18
kernel and we haven’t gotten any LAN driver to work with the 2.6.19 upgrade so
we’ve fallen back to the FC6 2.6.18.x kernel for now. I took someone’s
advice and downloaded the bios flash app and tried that approach. I
immediately toasted the BIOS chip. I called ASUS in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Louisville</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">KY</st1:State></st1:place> and they advised that I get a new BIOS
chip. The conversation seemed to indicate this was not a new phenomenon.
I ordered a new chip for each machine with their newest BIOS. I
inserted a new chip in one of the systems and fired it up. Low and behold,
the chip is not an MV2 BIOS as before, but an American Megatrends BIOS
(2.45.x). It works much better and there are more appropriate settings in
the BIOS now for ACPI. The plug and play drivers in CentOS 4.4 may work
better with this BIOS as well since there are no onboard LAN settings in the
BIOS setup. I’m hoping this means I can use CentOS on these systems
now. I’ll keep you posted.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">If you contact the <A
href="http://helpdesk.asus.com/">http://helpdesk.asus.com</A> and call their
tech support (ext 3). They’ll put you in touch with a gal who will ship
you the new chip for 5 bucks (5 to 10 day ground). I think it’s worth it,
so far.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">David
Baker</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
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