On Sunday 22 February 2004 4:01 pm, Bill Gradwohl wrote: > >The issue here is that Windows XP runs "out-of-the-box" on this system > >without problems and it is FAST, once it boots. > > We run the same mobo on several machines and they work just fine. Out of > the box, the mobo has enhanced on only for SATA and that's the way we left > it. We are using Seagate 120G PATA drives. Performance is as expected. I > flashed the BIOS to the most recent version available on ASUS's web site > before the O/S install. > > The only thing you should do is fix the amount of video RAM via the BIOS to > 32Meg BEFORE you install. We do this for either a W2K or Linux install on > this mobo. How do you know that this is the correct number? > > We have no other boards plugged into any slots, so I wouldn't know about > the Adaptec's effect on the system as a whole. > > We've been using YUM to make mods to the O/S as needed and haven't had a > single problem. I like the mobo for Linux. > > Now I hope you're a bit confused about our experience versus yours, and you > persevere and figure out where the difference is. From where I sit, it > looks like pilot error. I'd love to know where. Out of the box, my motherboard has enhanced on for both PATA and SATA. Are you saying that if I change it to your configuration I would get proper booting behavior for Fedora? > > BTW - We run over two dozen other ASUS mainboards in house. They include > some old P-II 266's, various AMD chips, single and DUAL P-III's, various > P-IV's, and they all work as expected. We have ASUS boards running at > client sites on Linux, Windows, and Netware, and can't remember the last > time we lost a server to hardware issues. The best up time we have is on > Linux server. > > -- > Bill Gradwohl > YCC > (817) 224-9400 x211 > www.ycc.com > SPAMstomper Protected E-mail > www.stomperware.com
