On Tuesday 03 June 2008 16:04:54 Scott Silva wrote: > on 6-3-2008 2:22 AM Peter Arremann spake the following: > > On Tuesday 03 June 2008 02:07:12 am Christopher Chan wrote: > >> Victor Padro wrote: > >>> Hello all, > >>> > >>> I just been wasting time with an Asus mobo trying to get CentOS/RHEL up > >>> and running for my home lab using Xen Technologies and need an advice > >>> in order to have a fully working Box, got any suggestions? > >> > >> Use acpi=off or noapic to deal with broken Asus bioses. > >> > >> Next time, buy MSI or A-bit. > > > > Doesn't MSI require you to have windows for bios updates? > > > > Peter. > > Most boards I have had usually had a floppy image available on the website > for bioses. Only live update is the windows only software. Or you can sometimes boot with the m/board driver disk to flash the bios, putting the new bios file on a floppy or USB pendrive.. john -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240