ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe

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Status

LMCE 7.10 B3 works with acpi disabled. Kubuntu Feisty (0704) + LMCE-1.1 (0704) works.

Hardware Features

  • Size: ATX
  • Socket: A2 (Athlon 64 X2 / AMD Athlon 64 / AMD Athlon 64 FX / AMD Sempron)
  • Northbridge: nVida nForce 570 SLI MCP
  • Memory: 4× 240-pin DIMM
  • Graphics: 2× PCIex16
  • Expansion: 3× PCI, 2× PCIex1
  • Audio: ADI AD1988B 8-Channel(S/PDIF)
  • Storage: 1× IDE - UDMA 133/100/66/33, 6× SATA 3.0 Gb/s (RAID 0,1,0+1,5,JBOD)
  • Network: Dual Gigabit LAN controllers
  • USB: 4× 2.0, 6× 2.0 internal USB connectors


Problems and Pitfalls

No on board video, but the two PCIe slots allow for any number of compatible nVida cards to be installed.

This motherboard has a well documented issue with Ubuntu installs and acpi. It is possible to circumvent the problem by turning off the acpi by inserting the line

noacpi noapic nolapic acpi=off irqpoll

into /boot/grub/menu.lst

after the word "splash" in the section

## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the

## alternatives

## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5

# defoptions=quiet splash

The trade-off is that the motherboard will function but the power management functions will not.

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