Re: Building a new desktop: hardware advice

2008-10-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/10/2 Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Asus M3A board >> http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1934&l1=3&l2=149&l3=592&l4=0 >> (we need both IDE and SATA, as my current 500GB hard drives are IDE) > > I haven't heard anything about AMD chipset compatibility, but without > any

Re: Building a new desktop: hardware advice

2008-10-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/10/2 Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Thank you Ron, that is a great point. Just last week I had a big fight >> with Western Digital because they require Windows to update the >> firmware of their harddrives. I will document this on my personal si

Re: Building a new desktop: hardware advice

2008-10-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Asus M3A board > http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1934&l1=3&l2=149&l3=592&l4=0 > (we need both IDE and SATA, as my current 500GB hard drives are IDE) I haven't heard anything about AMD chipset compatibi

Re: Building a new desktop: hardware advice

2008-10-01 Thread Miles Bader
"Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thank you Ron, that is a great point. Just last week I had a big fight > with Western Digital because they require Windows to update the > firmware of their harddrives. I will document this on my personal site > sometime soon. What's your website URL? [

Re: Building a new desktop: hardware advice

2008-09-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/9/20 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > But how would you know before buying the mobo? > > Hugo > 1) Check the online instructions 2) Write to the manufacturers and ask I will do both, as I want the hardware manufactures to know that there is interest in using their products on Linux, an

Re: Building a new desktop: hardware advice

2008-09-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/9/18 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: What ever mobo you choose, make sure that it doesn't require Windows to upgrade the BIOS. Thank you Ron, that is a great point. Just last week I had a big fight with Western Digital because they require Windows to update the firmwa

Re: Building a new desktop: hardware advice

2008-09-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/9/18 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What ever mobo you choose, make sure that it doesn't require Windows to > upgrade the BIOS. > Thank you Ron, that is a great point. Just last week I had a big fight with Western Digital because they require Windows to update the firmware of their harddr

Re: Building a new desktop: hardware advice

2008-09-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/18/08 14:07, Dotan Cohen wrote: I am building a new desktop machine for home use (no gaming, but we will output DVD and MPEG movies to the TV). I would appreciate the Debian community's opinion regarding my hardware selection, as this is the first non-MS machine that I am building. I have t

Re: Building a new desktop: hardware advice

2008-09-18 Thread thveillon.debian
Dotan Cohen a écrit : I am building a new desktop machine for home use (no gaming, but we will output DVD and MPEG movies to the TV). I would appreciate the Debian community's opinion regarding my hardware selection, as this is the first non-MS machine that I am building. I have tried to select c