Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:

If it's not too late, return the motherboard, get something else.

My personal experience with Intel's desktop motherboards is that they work most of the time for most of the people. Which is not enough for me. If you browse the list's archives, you'll find that particular models of Intel motherboards worked fine for many people on the list. However, that can't be said for the whole line of Intel's motherboards in general. I currently have one Intel motherboard on my desk that works just fine with CentOS 4.4 (D845GNT). There is couple of BIOS bugs when selecting boot device, but with some trial and error I got it to boot from CD-ROM so I could install OS onto it. Some time ago I also had another Intel's motherboard (D865PERL) that worked extremely unstable depending on combination of additional PCI cards (it particularly didn't like PCI cards made by Intel).

Thanks for the input. We have several hundred Intel motherboards in various deployments, of many different Intel northbridge generations: 815, 845, 865, 915, and 945. For the most part, they've worked very well for us.

Our vendor is starting to push us to migrate to the 965-based generation; thus our current evaluation (and question(s)).

Cheers,

Dave