New Computer 2005

• Case/power supply: Antec Sonata II ATX Case, 450 Watt.
• Motherboard: ASUS K8N-E Deluxe NF3 (Retail).
• CPU: AMD 64 3400+ Athlon 754 (Retail).
• RAM: Crucial D400 1G CT12864Z40B.16T% (OEM, 2 pieces).
• Hard disk: 250 GB Seagate 7200 8M SATA ST3250823AS% (OEM). Drive not reliably detected by motherboard, so could not install on this. Swapped in a 120 GB EIDE disk (need details).
• DVD+RW: Samsung TS-H552U/BEBN BLK% (OEM).
• Floppy disk: Samsung 1.44MB SFd321B/LBL1% (OEM).
• Card reader: Linskey LKA-CR15B 19-in-1 USB 2.0 Black.
• Video card: MSI NX6200AX-TD 128 Geforce 6200 128MB DDR AGP 4X/8X.
• Ethernet card: D-Link 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet Desktop Adapter (Model DFE-530TX, S/N DRG6158056834): Added this after Ethernet on motherboard stopped working.

Info on motherboard:

• Socket 754 for AMD Athlon 64
• Chipset: NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb.
• Front side bus: 800 MHz
• Memory: 3 x 184-pin DIMM sockets max. 3GB DDR-400 SDRAM memory
• 1 x AGP8X (1.5V only)
• 5 x PCI
• Storage/RAID:
  • Chipset:
    • 2 x UltraDMA 133/100/66/33
    • 2 x Serial ATA, support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, JBOD
  • Silicon Image Sil 3114 SATA controller:
    • 4x Serial ATA, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5, JBOD
• Audio:
  • Realtek ALC850, 8-channel CODEC
  • Audio sensing and enumeration technology
  • coaxial/optical S/PDIF out ports on back I/O
• LAN: Chipset built-in gigabit MAC with external Marvell PHY supporting 10/100/1000 BASE-T Ethernet
• IEEE 1394: VIA VT6307 controller supports 2 x 1394 ports
• USB: 8 USB 2.0 ports
• BIOS:
  • CrashFree BIOS 2
  • Q-Fan 2
  • Post reporter
  • 4 Mb Flash ROM, AMI BIOS, PnP, DMI2.0, WIM2.0, SM BIOS 2.3
• Special features:
  • ASUS MyLogo2
  • ASUS Multi-language BIOS
  • ASUS Instant Music
  • ASUS EZ Flash
• Back panel I/O ports:
  • 1 x parallel
  • 1 x serial
  • 1 x PS/2 keyboard
  • 1 x PS/2 mouse
  • 1 x 8-channel audio I/O
  • 1 x RJ45
  • 1 x optical S/PDIF output
  • 1 x coaxial S/PDIF output
  • 4 x USB 2.0/1.1
  • 1 x IEEE 1394
• Internal I/O connectors:
  • 2 x USB 2.0 connector supports additional 4 USB 2.0 ports
  • CPU/chassis/power fan connectors
  • 20-pin ATX power connector
  • 4-pin ATX 12V power connector
  • Chassis intrusion
  • CD/AUX audio in
  • IEEE 1394 port
  • GAME/MIDI connector
  • COM connector
  • Front panel audio connector

Install/Problem Notes

SATA disk not reliably recognized during install. Disabled SATA interface. Installed EIDE disk drive.

After several months, started to encounter problems with Xorg hanging, especially when rendering HTML pages. Suspect video card and/or driver. Unresolved.

Ethernet interface failed (2006-05-01). Device configures without errors. Power light on back panel and switch. Routing looks OK (except that MSS = 0, is that a problem? other machines here set MSS = 40). No firewalling.

Secondhand Reports

One report of problems installing Debian on ASUS K8N-E: Firewire controller recognized as eth0, ethernet as eth1.