<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">Next thing I would try, is to boot Puppy Linux from CD. This will tell fairly definitively whether that motherboard is standard enough for Linux, or whether it might be one of the proprietarized boards which often will crash anything, including the Windows installer. Puppy 4.1.2 is a 95M ISO, fairly quick and easy to download, burn, and boot from CD.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>If it boots Puppy from CD, I would jump to something with broader support for newest hardware, probably Sabayon based on recent experiences. I have had all sorts of troubles with RedHat (which is CentOS) not supporting non-vanilla hardware without extensive tweaking (which frankly, I refuse to waste my time doing).<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>But that motherboard might be a lot easier to run using a SATA CD-ROM. You could buy one and return it if it didn't help, if you can afford to do so.<br>
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