Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (218 mails)

[Doug B <suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 14 December 2004 11:46 am, Brad Dameron wrote:
> Not sure out of those listed but I do know that the Gigabyte K8N Pro
> all works under SuSe 9.1 64bit. It has the Nforce3-150 chipset. The
> Nforce3-250 should work the same. Nforce seems to work very well for
> 64bit.
>

> On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 07:02, Radule Soskic wrote:
> > I have a list of MBs to choose from, but would like to consult some
> > real-life-experienced users before I throw my money away:
> >
> > K8V-X
> > K8V SE Deluxe
> > K8N nForce3 250
> > K8N-E Deluxe nForce3 250 Pro
> >


Gigabyte GA-K8NS Pro with nForce3-250 chipset.

I had problems getting a stable install with both 9.1 and 9.2.  Not just 
Suse either.  Mandrake and Gentoo also.  Gentoo was actually pretty 
stable, but more trouble than I wanted to go through to get what I 
wanted.  I decided to try a 9.2 install with acpi turned off.  Install 
went perfect and I haven't had a bit of trouble since (well, a little 
nVidia graphics driver trouble, but got it worked out).  It has an on 
board IDE, SATA, IDE raid, and SATA raid.  I can't comment on the raid 
(I have them disabled) but I do have a hard drive (windows), cd rom, 
and dvd writer on the ide and a single sata drive that I boot from with 
linux installed on it.

If I needed to set another box, I wouldn't hesitate to use this board 
again.

Doug