On 02/14/2013 09:28 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > Seems like overnight every motherboard that worked with linux has > DROPPED off > the face of the earth. > > Every motherboard I looked at is using the realtek 8111 chipset and a > northbridge > that is not supported. > > Example: GIGABYTE GA-970A-DS3, does not work with linux > I tried disabling the onboard NIC and using a PCI-E intel card I always use > and that would not work either. The north or south bridge is messing > with the network card. > The card asks for a PXE boot but after centos starts it can no longer > find kickstart files, network > is messed up. > > I was using Asus M5A88-M and they are no longer available. > > Anyway - anyone have a suggestion for and AMD motherboard that works with > linux be great if it has onboard video (gaming is not needed), onboard > network, > SATA nothing super special just "working". I use the M5A99X EVO R2.0 board from ASUS ... I just built 2 machines with it the other day and installed CentOS-6.3 on there. I did not hook up sound, but network and sata work fine. I also did not use any of the hardware raid options, but there are 6 sata ports (6GB/sec), 6 e-sata ports (6GB/sec), and USB 3.0 support. It has AM3+ socket with support for a huge number of AMD CPUs from a single core Sempron 100 series to the 8 core FX-8350. The bios adjustments are amazing and there are several buttons on the board itself if you get a bit too aggressive on the memory settings, overclocking, etc. This will do a self diagnostic and set things at default for the Memory, CPU, and get you back to working settings. You can also flash the bios from a usb key while booted into the bios, so no DOS booting to upgrade the firmware. Needless to say ... I love these boards :) They also seem to be very close to what you were already using (M5A88-M), so any spare parts you have laying around should work (CPUs, Memory, etc). It does NOT have built in Video though ... and it requires a pci-e 2.0 video card. I had some GeForce cards on the shelf that would work. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20130214/6f5b6b44/attachment-0005.sig>