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