Quote Originally Posted by techieMoe View Post
I have an ASUS A8V-X, which is very similar (different socket and form factor, same chipset). What specific problems are you having?
Are you still using this board? I have tried to install debian and Ubuntu in a computer with this demonic motherboard and it has trouble with the sata HD. It seems that the default etch kernel (2.6.18 IIRC) sort-of-works, but more recent kernels seem to require the pci=nomsi option. Have you seen this? And more importantly, do you know if the pci=nomsi option is enough for the system to be reliable?

PS: In the bios, the SATA interface seems to be able to be configured as "SATA", "AHCI" and "RAID". Nor "SATA" nor "AHCI" work with recent kernels without the pci=nomsi option. I have not tried "RAID" because I do not use RAID. Currently, it is configured as "SATA", and the kernel is receiving the pci=nomsi option. Seems to have worked so far, but I don't know if it is reliable.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Regards from Brasil