[CentOS] motherboard recommendation

>     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.
> 

Sorry, I am not an Intel guy. I do not pay attention to what is 
available for Intel cpus.

As for supported SATA chipsets, check linux-ata.org.