[wellylug] Motherboards

[Kingsley G. Morse Jr.]

Hi Lindsay,

I'm in the final stages of installing a mother
board like you describe, and am happy to relay my
experience.

It's specified to support AM2+, various Phenoms
and up to 8 GB.

The motherboard is from ASUS and is called "M3A".

Full specifications are at

    http://shopper.cnet.com/motherboards/asus-m3a-motherboard-atx/4014-3049_9-32785154.html#p5

I chose it because it has a relatively large
number of legacy PCI slots (three) and because it
supports AMD.

It cost about $US 100.

After using it for a few weeks, I have no big
complaints. The manual was a little terse on the
color coding of individual USB wires, but ASUS's
technical support was helpful.

As an aside, I'm using it to give a "brain
transplant" to a full featured AMD Athlon XP 1700+
system running Debian unstable. Its CPU fried and
corrupted my hard drive and backup. Every file on
the main hard drive was replaced with 780,000 bits
of hash in the /lost+found directory! The only
time I've seen worse data corruption was when my
adolescent son and I used a hammer to reveal a
hard drive's interior.

I should probably mention that I am having a
problem with the main hard drive sometimes not
being remounted read-only during shutdown, but at
this point, I doubt it's the motherboard's fault.

Best regards,
Kingsley

On 07/26/08 17:58, Lindsay Hunter wrote:
> Any current recommendations for a replacement motherboard for AM2 and 
> Phenom, 4 GB etc?
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