ASUS M3N78-VM

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Version Status Date Updated Updated By
710 According to category, Works with caveats 11th May 2010 Wierdbeard65
810 Unknown N/A N/A
Usage Information

Contents


LinuxMCE important hardware features

  • Socket AM2/AM2+ - AMD Phenom™ FX / Phenom / Athlon™ / Sempron™
  • Integrated NVIDIA GeForce® 8 Series GPU with HDMI/DVI/RGB
  • Realtek® ALC1200 8 -Channel High Definition Audio CODEC with optical S/PDIF out port at back I/O
  • NVIDIA built-in Gigabit MAC with external Realtek PHY
  • 1 xUltraDMA 133/100/66/33, 1 xExternal SATA 3 Gb/s ports 5 x SATA 3Gb/s ports (Use SATA1-3 for IDE mode.), NVIDIA® MediaShield™ RAID Support RAID 0,1,0+1,5,JBOD

Test System

  • CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 7750
  • Cooler: stock OEM
  • RAM: Crucial 1066
  • HDD: SATA SEAGATE BARRACUDA 7200.10 500
  • DVD-RW: AHCI(BLU RAY SATA )
  • LinuxMCE: 0710 quickinstall i386 DVD

Results

so far i got X start working With the latest nVidia(182) drivers and i will report back on the other stuff soon


Okay so i got this board working with HDMI out on 182 nvidia drivers on highest level 1080 with ui + overlway. Analog sound works out the box. SPDIF not yet :), hopefully i can get it working soon.

Whats left to do, got 1 more of these on the way so i will try to Get the onboard nic to work for diskless Mds So sound and networking not yet working, but eh close enough for today.

Troubleshooting

  • Problem: After installation starts monitor looses signal.
Solution: Solved by rebooting, hitting Escape,goto recovery Mode and follow this for nvidia, i only tried i386 so far

Displayguide


  • Problem: After installation starts monitor looses signal.
Solution: Solved by pressing F6 at installer menu and stripping the ending options " quiet splash --" on AMD64 disk or
Solution: Solved by using i386 DVD instead of AMD64
  • Problem: SATA disk cannot be found by installator.
Solution: Changing the SATA mode in the BIOS to AHCI solved that.
  • Problem: Integrated NIC is not recognized by system
Solution: grabbed two nics that are and turned it off
  • Problem: Digital audio (HDMI) doesn't work.
Solution: Theoretically upgrade ALSA to version 1.0.19 and use the latest nVidia drivers (180.22) but practically couldn't hear any sound via HDMI. Will be trying this.



Big thanks to the dude who wrote the EM info, i stole your formatting :) 

hopefully ill have the rest of my hardware issues labeled up here soon.

See also

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