On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 11:44 +0800, Chong Yu Meng wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 16:25 -0700, Matt Cooper wrote: > > hi there fedora team! i love how everybody makes their niche > > noticable! but you guys, broke the mold! been runnin on fedora since > > day 1, however now i have a silly problem, i purchased an eMachine > > W3400, the mainboard inside is an MSI RS480M, the only fedora relese i > > can make work for it so far is 1,2, and 3, > > Hi Matt, > > I use *only* MSI boards, and I've tried every Fedora version that has > come out on my MSI-powered computers. I'm even running 64-bit FC5 on a > MSI K8NGM2. Never heard of your mb though. Maybe if you give more > details about your problem (where it fails, what you see, etc.), we may > be able to help. > Sounds to me like he has a specialized board/bios for the EMachine. I had a machine that I purchased from Fry's with linspire installed. I could install any flavor of Linux I tried, but it refused to install/boot any flavor of Windows. I had another that came with WinXP, and it had some problems with the OEM version installed. It refused to install a vanilla version of XP. In both cases, installing a generic mobo fixed the problem.
