experience with Asus A8V-XE?

[Cr0nJ0b]

I'm not looking for great, just good enought to run linux.

 

[cwismer]

I just installed this board with a 3200+ AMD Athlon, and 2GB Micron Crucial RAM.

I got it with a combo from NewEgg for a good price, with a 200GB WD SATA drive.

I was not able to successfully install an OS on the SATA drive. I tried to do it with no floppy, slipstreamed XP, Vista, the works. I tried the SATA and RAID drivers for the VIA southbridge chip that is on the board. I didn't try any *nix varieties I guess.

Installing on an IDE drive went smoothly. Vista had a little trouble with the onboard audio, but a download linked from the Asus website fixed the microphone problem.

I haven't overclocked but the bios looks capable.