On 5/29/07, Feizhou <feizhou@graffiti.net> wrote:
Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> On 5/27/07, CentOS List <centoslist@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >can you recommend me motherboard that centos 4.x supports? the proc
>> is inte
>> >core 2 duo >3.2GHZ.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I use a MSI P4M890. It has 2 PATA and 2 SATA.
>>
>
> I know ECS is not particularly popular, but I had really good luck
> with my nForce4M-A - the only caveat is that I have to run with noapic
> because it doesn't like apic for some reason.
>

That sounds like a board with a buggy bios. For the same reason, I will
avoid Asus boards since I have resort to noapic or apci=off parameters
to get them to run stable.

what motherboard chipset should i look for? i use the MSI board im not sure with the model but this one is with the jmicron something and it can't even recognize by centos on bootup.