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marrandy

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new hybrid M/B needed
« on: October 27, 2009, 06:09:49 pm »
Hello linuxmce users and developers.

I have checked the hardware in the wiki, but there are no dates and many that i have tried are discontinued, out of stock etc.

I am looking for people's experience with newer motherboards.

I have had a Asus M2NPV-VM for the past 2+ years but it is failing.  Bad LAN onboard and when I disable and put another LAN card in, both PCI LAN cards go missing.

I am using it in hybrid mode and am using the 4 onboard RAID sata/esata connections to an external esata box.

So I am looking something with the same or more PCI slots and RAID capability.

What is the latest/newest motherboard that is both stable and has the features that I need ?



http://www.motherboards.org/reviews/motherboards/1693_3.html

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Re: new hybrid M/B needed
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2009, 07:00:13 pm »
I am using Jetway JNC62K motherboards for my MD's.  They have like everything onboard!  I use them for diskless boot though, if you look in the wiki at my profile you can see them.  I had to tweak the boot thing to get the NIC to work with 0710, I don't know about 0810 but I bet they would work with it out of the box.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813153114

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Re: new hybrid M/B needed
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2009, 08:40:53 pm »
I am very happy with my Asus M3N78-EM

marrandy

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Re: new hybrid M/B needed
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2009, 08:48:42 pm »

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Re: new hybrid M/B needed
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2009, 09:24:37 pm »
The VM is probably a better choice anyway, and is nearly identical:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131318

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Re: new hybrid M/B needed
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2009, 09:39:55 pm »
I'm happy with my config - i'm also using the Asus M3N78-EM for one of my MDs - my config is here: http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/User:Murdock

marrandy

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Re: new hybrid M/B needed
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2009, 10:08:09 pm »
The VM is probably a better choice anyway, and is nearly identical:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131318


The reviews seem pretty poor for this board.

I'll keep looking..thanks for the help.

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Re: new hybrid M/B needed
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2009, 01:35:52 am »
The VM is probably a better choice anyway, and is nearly identical:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131318


The reviews seem pretty poor for this board.

I'll keep looking..thanks for the help.

Actually, comparing the specs of that board to my old one means I can use the processor and memory.

It might be a good, inexpensive temporary (for a year or so) solution.

Thanks merkur2k.

Tell me what works and doesn't on this motherboard.  Is 0810 recognizing everything ?
« Last Edit: October 28, 2009, 01:42:21 am by marrandy »

Murdock

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Re: new hybrid M/B needed
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2009, 12:22:21 pm »
Everything is recognized on my EM