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Subject: Re: mb recommendation
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Francois Tigeot wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:07:27AM -0300, JoaoBR wrote:
>   
>> On Tuesday 25 April 2006 09:00, Francois Tigeot wrote:
>>     
>>> Asus A8V-E-SE
>>>
>>> Socket 939, PCI-E.
>>>
>>> VIA chipset with a SATA pseudo-RAID implementation.
>>>
>>> Everything works perfectly (running an Opteron here) with the caveat that
>>> you can't use 4GB of memory.
>>>
>>> Every 64-bit OS I have tested crashed with 4GB populated. Up to three GB,
>>> this board is fine.
>>>       
>> crashes under which condition?
>>     
>
> 4 GB of memory (4x1GB Kingston ECC) and the option to remap memory > 4GB set
> to on in the BIOS.
>
> FreeBSD, Centos, SuSE, Ubuntu, etc... all crashed.
>   

Thats why we don't use desktop motherboards for servers. I would 
recommend you stick with Tyan or Supermicro.