On 02/14/2013 09:28 AM, Jerry Geis wrote:
Seems like overnight every motherboard that worked with linux has DROPPED off the face of the earth.
Every motherboard I looked at is using the realtek 8111 chipset and a northbridge that is not supported.
Example: GIGABYTE GA-970A-DS3, does not work with linux I tried disabling the onboard NIC and using a PCI-E intel card I always use and that would not work either. The north or south bridge is messing with the network card. The card asks for a PXE boot but after centos starts it can no longer find kickstart files, network is messed up.
I was using Asus M5A88-M and they are no longer available.
Anyway - anyone have a suggestion for and AMD motherboard that works with linux be great if it has onboard video (gaming is not needed), onboard network, SATA nothing super special just "working".
I use the M5A99X EVO R2.0 board from ASUS ... I just built 2 machines with it the other day and installed CentOS-6.3 on there.
I did not hook up sound, but network and sata work fine. I also did not use any of the hardware raid options, but there are 6 sata ports (6GB/sec), 6 e-sata ports (6GB/sec), and USB 3.0 support. It has AM3+ socket with support for a huge number of AMD CPUs from a single core Sempron 100 series to the 8 core FX-8350.
The bios adjustments are amazing and there are several buttons on the board itself if you get a bit too aggressive on the memory settings, overclocking, etc. This will do a self diagnostic and set things at default for the Memory, CPU, and get you back to working settings. You can also flash the bios from a usb key while booted into the bios, so no DOS booting to upgrade the firmware.
Needless to say ... I love these boards :)
They also seem to be very close to what you were already using (M5A88-M), so any spare parts you have laying around should work (CPUs, Memory, etc).
It does NOT have built in Video though ... and it requires a pci-e 2.0 video card. I had some GeForce cards on the shelf that would work.