Irrespective of Motherboard model, I would go to the Intel website and make certain that the latest bios update is installed. Bios updatse have been coming out about every other month. The latest updates for my d945gnt mother board fixed quite a few problems. Then I would check how the sata drive is facing linux. Intel allows three options and AHCI (by my memory), works for me. Treating Sata as ide and as raid did not. Then again, if the bios is up to date, follow the settings for IRQ... Leslie -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=180241&topic_id=39729&forum=10#forumpost180241 If you think, this is spam, please report this to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and/or blame leslie.satenstein@xxxxxxxxxx