hardware advice (mother board)

[jerry]

Mihamina (R12y) Rakotomandimby wrote:
> Hi,
> I bought an ASUS P5B-E mother board.
> It was awsome:
>
> - NIC problems (solved, but only in development version now)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/81412
>
> - IDE problems (solved, but only in development version now)
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/84964
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/57502
>
> - PAE problems
> http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+asus+memory+remap
>
> I have 4G RAM and a Core 2 Duo E660CPU and nVidia 7xxx graohic card (I dont 
> need the features brought by the proprietary drivers)
> What motherbord of the moment would work on it?
> I need to buy one motherboard quickly so that saturday night or sunday morning 
> the box is up and running. And the 4G RAM need to be all used, and network 
> up.
>
> Thank you.
>
>   
This link will let you plug in your hardware to see what mobos come up 
as compatible.

http://www.motherboards.org/mobot/

Hope this helps

Jerry