Hi all, I am about to open my wallet for an ASUS P5ND2-SLI Deluxe nForce4 Chipset w/ P4 3.0 GHz 2MB L2 and 1 GIG RAM. I don't expect to capture the major capability of this board with Linux, but WIN XP will use it to good gain. Any issues re: XP and SuSE on different hard disks? In '85 I did some Xenix with Informix SQL (multi-user) stuff on Altos hardware (OE/AR/Inventory) and then in '94 used SCO Open Desktop Unix with Informix SQL (again, multi-user, same tasks) on PC hardware. The docs were *extremely good* or I wouldn't have made the grade. For this board: ASUS P5ND2-SLI Deluxe nForce4 Chipset w/ P4 3.0 GHz 2MB L2 and 1 GIG RAM 1. Can SuSE find the onboard SOUND? 2. Can SuSE find (ONE) NVIDIA 256MB PCI EXPRESS 16X card with second card position empty? 3. Can Suse use either or both of the (TWO) onboard 10/100/1000 ports? Now, after only a sprinkling over a 20 year period, and despite that I may be senior-senile (most of the time), I plan to use MySQL on a separate SATA150 80GB hard disk. I would be very pleased to get some feedback, so I don't place to large a bet on a bad odds thing. Please steer me to another list if there's one more appropriate to partially informed newbie. Is there a better mobo choice for a Linux Box? I don't need the ASUS P5ND2 graphics capability even in the WIN XP apps I will use. Best regards and nice to meet all, Lonn C. Dugan Lonn C. Dugan