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Subject: Re: ASUS A8R-MVP RAID compability
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Björn Pålsson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm about to buy the A8R-MVP motherboard but I've seen some issues with it. It 
> is still not clear to me if it is only when booting from RAID it doesn't 
> work. I don't intend to boot from RAID anyway so if it works fine when the 
> boot-knob is off, I'm happy.
>   

Here is a suggestion. Don't buy motherboards with crappy/unsupported 
chipsets. Buy a VIA or even nVidia chipset based board instead and save 
yourself the hassle.