Fried motherboard replacement?

[machiner]

Brian Durant Wrote: 
> Hi again,
> 
> My computer guy tells me that there is a high probability my Soyo
> Dragon Plus! motherboard is fried and that I should start shopping
> around for a new one. Naturally, my first question is what works well
> with Linux? While my experience tells me that it changes slightly from
> distro to distro, there are some general rules. As an example, my Soyo
> board never worked that well in general with Linux. I don't want to go
> all the way and get an AMD 64 bit capable processor and board as AMD
> has a rep for being difficult to get to work well. Not my experience,
> but if no one here in Jakarta will touch AMD with the proverbial 10
> foot pole... My computer guy recommends Asus, but I have no idea if
> they are the bees knees in Linux or what. Are any of the new Intel
> motherboards any good in Linux? If nothing else, can someone direct me
> to a URL where I can find recommendations?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Brian
> 
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I also run Abit NF7-S and Abit NF7-M boards with Ubuntu. Good support,
everything works out of the box, except Nvidia 3-d, but we knew that
anyway.


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machiner