ASUS mobo for desktop

Denise H. G. darcsis at gmail.com
Mon Jan 19 07:26:29 PST 2009


Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru> writes:

> Hi!
>
> I'm planning to upgrade my desktop to C2D and am picking motherboard
> for it. I prefer ASUS and I guess P5Q model line is actual now, but
> there are quite a bunch of specific models, so it's hard enough to
> pick. Are there any positive experience with those mobos (I.e. no
> problems with onboard NIC, ATA/SATA controllers and other stuff)?
> I'm planning to install 7.1 i386. Also I'm planning to install 4GB
> RAM there - I'll just get my 3.25 or 3.5, right (I think I've heard
> of some freezes with 4GB)?

I'be been running FreeBSD 7.x on Asus M2A VM for some time. Nearly
everything is OK after I upgraded the BIOS to the latest version. If you
install 4GB memory on this board without latest BIOS, something weird
would happen...


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