[ale] Need a new MB, recommendations?

[Greg Freemyer]

Jim,

Do you really need IDE connectors and PCI slots?

They are slowly becoming dinosaurs I believe.  Still easy to find, but
manufacturers are moving slowly away from both.

You can get SATA based DVDs and linux has been supporting them pretty
well for a year or two, so as long as you don't want to run an old
kernel you should be fine.

Not sure why you want PCI slots.  If I was building something new, I
would go pure PCI-express if I could.

Greg

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Jim Lynch
<ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
> I upgraded my Centos 5 system via yum the other day and when I went to
> boot, it stopped during post.  It stopped while outputing the line that
> says something to the effect "press delete for bios, press F12 for boot
> menu ESC for quick boot".  It stopped everytime after printing the ES on
> ESC.
>
> No beeps.  I powered it off, reseated the cards and memory and tried to
> get it to play.  Nogo.  After fiddling with it a while, I unplugged the
> usb connector from my usb KVM and plugged in a usb keyboard directly.
> It booted fine.  Once I'm running Centos, I can plug the KVM back in and
> all works fine, but the bios has lost the ability to communicate with
> the keyboard.  I check that the USB keyboard in the bios was enabled.
>
> Anyway, this POS ECS motherboard has already lost 2 SATA ports.  They
> just stopped working.  I now need to replace this thing but don't want
> to have to build something from scratch.
>
> I've looked at a number of mother boards but haven't found one that
> really fits.  I need something with the following specs:
>
> 4 DDR2 ram slots 800 mhz
> LGA775 intel processor support
> onboard audio
> either an onboard lan supported by Linux or a PCI slot
> Support for a PCI-E graphic card
> At least one IDE port for the DVD drive
> a couple of PCI slots
>
> Does anyone have suggestions as to what might work?  Also if anyone
> knows of a site that has an easy to read list of motherboards and their
> specs?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim.
>
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