ASUS M2V mobo issues

"David Baker" <dbaker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:21:51 -0600

We have 4 systems supported by ASUS M2V mobos with AMD2 cpus on board.  No
we haven’t gotten CentOS of any flavor to work yet.  Yes, we did
load Fedora Core 6 and it worked, with respect to the SATA driver only. 
There is a RAID, Audio and LAN driver for Linux that comes on the M2V mobo CD.
The audio driver installs and works fine on FC6.  I’ve read many of
the messages with respect to setting up the LAN driver.  We’ve had
the best success with the 1.0.4.x Attansic driver being provided by Jay Cliburn
(kernel 2.6.18.x).  He has been very helpful with this.  He has a 2.x
driver which doesn’t appear to work with the 2.6.18 kernel and we haven’t
gotten any LAN driver to work with the 2.6.19 upgrade so we’ve fallen
back to the FC6 2.6.18.x kernel for now.  I took someone’s advice
and downloaded the bios flash app and tried that approach.  I immediately
toasted the BIOS chip.  I called ASUS in Louisville, KY
and they advised that I get a new BIOS chip.  The conversation seemed to
indicate this was not a new phenomenon.  I ordered a new chip for each
machine with their newest BIOS.  I inserted a new chip in one of the systems
and fired it up.  Low and behold, the chip is not an MV2 BIOS as before,
but an American Megatrends BIOS (2.45.x).  It works much better and there
are more appropriate settings in the BIOS now for ACPI.  The plug and play
drivers in CentOS 4.4 may work better with this BIOS as well since there are no
onboard LAN settings in the BIOS setup.  I’m hoping this means I can
use CentOS on these systems now.  I’ll keep you posted.

If you contact the http://helpdesk.asus.com
and call their tech support (ext 3).  They’ll put you in touch with
a gal who will ship you the new chip for 5 bucks (5 to 10 day ground).  I
think it’s worth it, so far.

David Baker

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