[CentOS] motherboard recommendation

Tue May 29 05:36:24 UTC 2007
Mark Quitoriano <markquitoriano at gmail.com>

On 5/29/07, Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net> wrote:
>
> Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> > On 5/27/07, CentOS List <centoslist at 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.
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