New Motherboard

[Ioannis Vranos]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> 
>         I have had no success with the motherboard I now have with lots 
> of nVidia hardware. It has been prone to sudden crashes at just the 
> wrong time. I asked and got plenty of Ubuntu guys tell me they have 
> nVidia motherboards and they work fine! So it appears my board is 
> somehow bad.
> 
>         So I decided to get a whole new motherboard and wound up with a 
> Gigibyte GA-MA78GM-S2H AM2 AMD ... that should let me put my current AMD 
> CPU and 2 GB of Ram onto the new board. It is plenty fast for this old 
> man and cost $100.00 at Newegg.
> 
>         As it looks now I should find the Internet will come from the 
> new board, with no changes. The sound should not take any work to be 
> good. But the ATI video driver will be just like the nVidia hardware. 
> You must have a proper driver or it will not work. I have 
> "ati-driver-installer-8-3-x86.86_64.run" which I got from the ATI web 
> page. It will be I think just like the nVidia GOOD driver that caused my 
> computer to crash almost every time I turned on Firefox.
> 
>         If the ATI motherboard has the same problem I will give up on 
> computers :-)


There is a company selling Linux workstations and servers. You can use
their hardware specifications to build your own Linux compatible PC.
Here's the link:

http://www.aslab.com/