ASUS M2R32-MVP

Chipset AMD 580X CrossFire Chipset + ATI SB600

Bios Revision 0804

My setup:

• -Athlon X2 3800+ AM2 (Windsor Core 2GHz + 2x512Kb Cache) 89 Watt -2x1 gig Corsair 5-5-5-12 DDR2 800mhz -ASUS ATI X1900 XTX PCIe Video card -520 watts P/S -Onboard sound -Onboard NIC

Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS (Hardy Heron) Installation issues

• -Had to remove 'quite splash' and add "pci=nomsi" "apci=off" to prevent the installation from stalling during SATA HD detection.

Post installation issues:

• - "pci=nomsi" has to be added to the kernel initialization script to facilitate booting. Otherwise the system will hang every time.

What was tested

• -Onboard NIC: Seems to work fine up to 1Gb/sec -Onboard Sound: Playback and volume control seem to work in stereo. (Microphone and 5.1 channel playback untested) -Video card: Compiz Fusion up and working fine(Cube, Rotate, Fire, Annotate, Water, Reflection, Dbus, Cubecaps), Mpeg/AVI video playback working, Flash Video playback working, -PS2 ports: both mouse and keyboard work(even ancient Model M IBM keyboard works fine) -SATA Devices: Tested several SATA HDs, all mounted up and read just fine. SATA DVD-Rom mounted and read fine.

Other notes

• I "have not" tried to install directly to a SATA HD, yet. Nor have I tried any serious 3D apps. Additionally no benchmarking have yet been performed.

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