ASUS M3N78 (green)
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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
Media Director
First off, my core is a Dianemo Nerve Centre, so some drivers may be different from the regular LinuxMCE 0710. If anyone has a "normal" core, please add notes.
I use this board in my main MD. Network boot was not a problem at all. Standard VGA at the AV Wizard goes to the sub-D plug, so I had to press '1' to get an image. Resolution selection is painless, and I get 1080p UI2 with overlay.
Sound IS a problem, since the AV wizard locked up after the sound section; i.e., I never got to the summary screen. I also had no sound. Maybe changing BIOS settings and/or drivers could fix this, but I just plugged in a sound card with SPDIF out and turned the onboard sound off in the BIOS. After that, no problems (I did need to manually activate the proper sound channel in kmix to get SPDIF sound).
This plays h.264 720p without a problem, and with a few minor hickups also 1080p. I adjusted nvidia-settings in the usual way.
