> 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.