On 11/07/2013 12:15 AM, Lindsay Sprinter wrote:
> Hi I am looking for a bit of recent motherboard experience here.
>
> I have figured out the cause of the crash's of the Nvidia closed src
> drivers during my recent i386 V AMD64 experimnents. The problem almpst
> certainly being a buggy motherboard. The board concerend is a Gigabyte
> GA-X79-UD5. Its always given a little bit of trouble including problems
> with the hardrives and one particular graphics card (Radeon HD7870) will
> not work in text mode, graphics mode though being OK. In both cases the
> equipment concerned has worked OK on other MB's. Search's on the net also
> said the some of the early X79 chipsets had some problems.
>
> Now I have decided after some thought to replace the MB and have narrowed
> the search down to 2 examples the first is a Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4, this
> being an almost perfect direct dropin replacement. The second is an ASUS
> P9X79 Pro. The reasons for considering the ASUS are firstly I am slightly
> gun shy of Gigabyte boards due to current problem, second I have two other
> systems that use ASUS P6X58 pro MB's, these being the previous generation
> of the X79 boards and these boards have given no trouble and been
> excellent performers. Third the ASUS boad is slightly more "future proof".
>
> Now the question is only minor, the ASUS webs site says the board is only
> rated for windows 7 and latter although the site does provide drivers for
> Windows XP. The System has (of course) Linux installed, currently this is
> Debian Sid i386, with the NVidia closed src driver installed and working
> OK. Windows XP is also installed, Now the question (finally???) is is
> there likely to be any problem's installing XP on this newer board. Its
> not a real great tragedy if one cannot install it but it would be nice to
> have.
>
> I would normaly search the net for the answers for this kind of
> problem but the dial up line though make this far to slow these days as
> the net currently expects everyone to have highspeed broadband (my high
> speed access currently being out of service).
>
> Using Linux for now over 20 years,
> Lindsay
Hi Lindsay
I've been using Linux for about the same time.
I have been using Gigabyte motherboards for years with no problem so far.
My current one is 945GCM-S2L has been working pretty well for a long
time now, it's old and only 2 gig memory but it takes virtually anything
I throw at it.
Roger
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