Motherboard experiance

[Bob Raymond]

Harry G wrote:

>I would like to know if anyone has any fairly recent experience with 
>the following motherboards with Linux:
>
>Biostar M7KQ 
>
>PC Chips 817 LR
>
>ECS K7SEM
>
>Amptron SUS735
>
>Or any related units?  I am about to embark on a new adventure:  
>Building a box from scratch, and really don't need any additional 
>"challenges", so to speak.
>
>Or if there are any other brands you would recommend or warn me about?
>
>TIA
>
>
>Harry G
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Only from scratch board I've used in Linux I won't recommend, not 
because it isn't
a good board, but because it is one of those outdated SDRAM models.  VIA 
really
has come a long way, so if you do want an inexpensive, rock solid, SDRAM 
board,
I could recommend my EPoX 8KTA3Pro (add a plus if you want RAID), but as 
most people
buy DDR now, you may not want one like that.  The board only crashes 
when the CPU
overheats, even in Windows (but also with Linux), and the system has 
only been off
for major upgrades since October. I've had to reboot, but that's only 
because I
dual-boot.

Best advantage of the board is that I've not seen one IRQ conflict yet. 
 I've got stuff
filling the AGP slot, and then slots 1-4, and still no problems.  If you 
need ISA,
it's got that as well.

Only complaint is that I didn't wait for the Athlon XP and didn't get a 
DDR board, and I
guess the temperature monitoring could leave a little to be desired.

My $0.02

Bob Raymond