Re: Building a new desktop: hardware advice

2008-10-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/10/2 Miles Bader [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thank you Ron, that is a great point. Just last week I had a big fight with Western Digital because they require Windows to update the firmware of their harddrives. I will document this on my personal site sometime

Re: Building a new desktop: hardware advice

2008-10-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/10/2 Kelly Clowers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Asus M3A board http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2model=1934l1=3l2=149l3=592l4=0 (we need both IDE and SATA, as my current 500GB hard drives are IDE) I haven't heard anything about AMD chipset compatibility, but without any negative

Re: Building a new desktop: hardware advice

2008-10-01 Thread Miles Bader
Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thank you Ron, that is a great point. Just last week I had a big fight with Western Digital because they require Windows to update the firmware of their harddrives. I will document this on my personal site sometime soon. What's your website URL? [I have

Re: Building a new desktop: hardware advice

2008-10-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Asus M3A board http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2model=1934l1=3l2=149l3=592l4=0 (we need both IDE and SATA, as my current 500GB hard drives are IDE) I haven't heard anything about AMD chipset compatibility, but

Re: Building a new desktop: hardware advice

2008-09-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/9/18 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What ever mobo you choose, make sure that it doesn't require Windows to upgrade the BIOS. Thank you Ron, that is a great point. Just last week I had a big fight with Western Digital because they require Windows to update the

Re: Building a new desktop: hardware advice

2008-09-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/9/20 Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But how would you know before buying the mobo? Hugo 1) Check the online instructions 2) Write to the manufacturers and ask I will do both, as I want the hardware manufactures to know that there is interest in using their products on Linux, and

Building a new desktop: hardware advice

2008-09-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
I am building a new desktop machine for home use (no gaming, but we will output DVD and MPEG movies to the TV). I would appreciate the Debian community's opinion regarding my hardware selection, as this is the first non-MS machine that I am building. I have tried to select components known to work

Re: Building a new desktop: hardware advice

2008-09-18 Thread thveillon.debian
Dotan Cohen a écrit : I am building a new desktop machine for home use (no gaming, but we will output DVD and MPEG movies to the TV). I would appreciate the Debian community's opinion regarding my hardware selection, as this is the first non-MS machine that I am building. I have tried to select

Re: Building a new desktop: hardware advice

2008-09-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/18/08 14:07, Dotan Cohen wrote: I am building a new desktop machine for home use (no gaming, but we will output DVD and MPEG movies to the TV). I would appreciate the Debian community's opinion regarding my hardware selection, as this is the first non-MS machine that I am building. I have

Re: Building a new desktop: hardware advice

2008-09-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/9/18 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What ever mobo you choose, make sure that it doesn't require Windows to upgrade the BIOS. Thank you Ron, that is a great point. Just last week I had a big fight with Western Digital because they require Windows to update the firmware of their