Re: good motherboard choice?

[Michel Talon <talon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Leimbach wrote:
> Well I think my motherboard has gone crazy.
>
> I have an ASUS N8X-Deluxe motherboard and it can't boot any of the following
> OpenBSD, FreeBSD 4.x or 5.x or DragonFly.
>
> It probably will boot linux but I don't use it anymore since starting with 
> FreeBSD.  For some reason Windows seems to work but it BSOD's a lot more often
> than should occur on XP Pro. 
>
> It randomly fails the startup memory tests and I tested the memory to be OK.
>
> Basically I need a new motherboard.  Any recommendations?  I want to keep my 
> existing Athlon XP 2800+ CPU and the RAM so I need to stick with AMD 
> compatible stuff.  I'd rather steer clear of NForce2 based motherboards 
> unless someone knows them to work with DragonFly. 
>
> I found a very affordable VIA KT600 based one but I don't know if that's a
> good choice either.
>
> I am not interested in supporting new hardware on DraonFly... I just want
> a machine that works :)
>
> Dave

I have heard a lot of horror stories about Asus cards recently. Even in 
our lab where we have a lot of them, we have encounterd serious 
problems. You could consider Abit or MSI. They have good VIA based cards
which work very well with Athlons. I know that some people despise VIA
chipsets but i have seen zero problem with Abit cards with VIA chipsets.