<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">George Prowse</b> <<a href="mailto:cokehabit@gmail.com">cokehabit@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>I've never heard of linux not running on a specific motherboard, which<br>one was it?<br><br></blockquote></div><br>It's a MSI Intel P35 Neo board. Its pretty good as it will take a Core 2 Quad chip (when prices come down) and upto 8GB of Ram with 4 slots :-) (
<a href="http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?QuickLinx=4JWT">http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?QuickLinx=4JWT</a>)<br><br>I have tried every distro under the Sun, but they all say they can't find the CD drive after initially booting from it. According to 'google' lots of Ubuntu people have had problem with this board. Some say it's a problem with OnLite DVD drives so I even tried with a different brand but still no joy. I have also tried a network install of SLED10 but again the installer does not find the onboard network card.
<br><br>It runs Windows lovely though ;-)<br>