Feizhou wrote: > Thomas Harold wrote: >> Robert Thompson wrote: >>> Feizhou wrote: >>>> 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. >> >> Which Asus board? And how old is the BIOS? We've had good results >> with the M2N-E and M2N32-SLI Deluxe motherboards and Linux 2.6. The >> M2N32-SLI had some rough edges early on until Asus released a proper >> BIOS for the board. > > Asus is finally getting their apic tables setup right? great. > > A8N-VM Pretty sure I haven't tried running Linux on one of those. That's a socket 939 ATX board with PCIe and we only own one (which is a A8N-VM CSM GeForce 6150 running WinXP). I don't exactly remember which BIOS revision of the M2N32-SLI Deluxe has issues... but at the time I was running Gentoo and the Gentoo boards contain a good deal of information about motherboards. Once Asus released a good BIOS for it, I dropped Xen 3.0.2 on it and left it alone. I also had an A8V motherboard (socket 939, VIA K8T800Pro chipset) that I used for about a year with a 2.6 kernel. The M2NPV-VM boards (microATX) also seemed to work (at least with the Xen 3.0.0 or 3.0.1 LiveCD which I was using to test APIC issues on the M2N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard). (We've developed a familiarity for the Asus AM2 motherboards, so they're the primary choice for us on the workstation / desktop side. Plus they have zero moving parts and a decent feature set.)