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Sep 03, 2023
The best way to travel with rifle ammo while hunting.
I already have another one of this sadly discontinued product, and I have used it for over five years to carry it while deer hunting.
It's really sturdy and protects my carefully constructed handloaded ammo to ensure proper shots to my quarry.
Oct 06, 2012
Works perfectly the first time, in both Linux and XP
I bought this as a replacement for my over five-year-old MSI board that had gone south, and I couldn't be happier.
Asus is pretty much the standard bearer for motherboards according to many people, and my other computer's Socket 478 Asus board is still working all these years after I originally got it, which gives me lots of confidence for Asus.
My system is probably a bit more demanding than most others' systems would be, since I dual boot Linux and XP, with Linux being what I use almost exclusively.
I am happy to say that this worked perfectly in both Linux (with appropriate kernel modifications) and XP (using the drivers provided by Asus on their website), the first time.
The only modification I had to make in Linux was to get the onboard RealTek LAN working -- after my kernel was customized for it -- by editing my /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules by changing "eth1" to "eth0," although I could still have gotten the LAN working by changing the command line for my DHCP client from "dhcpcd eth0" to "dhcpcd eth1."
AHCI also works perfectly in Linux, and this board even coexists perfectly with my over ten-year-old PCI Promise TXT2000 IDE controller card I'm still using for my legacy IDE hard drives.
I'm able to get all that I could ever ask working perfectly, and I expect to continue using this until my Core2 Quad CPU eventually dies.
Oct 06, 2012
Works, but replaced for something better suited to my specific purposes
I bought this board to replace my 5+ year old MSI board that seemed to have gone bad, causing random crashes and failing to even boot up after multiple attempts before finally getting there and otherwise being unpredictable.
Once I went through the process of pulling the old board and installing this one, my suspicions were confirmed, as bootup was instant into my OS of choice (Linux), as well as WinXP (dual boot system).
Unsurprisingly, all the onboard functions worked fine within XP using the downloadable Asus drivers.
I was able to get everything working on this within Linux except the onboard Marvell 88E8056 LAN, even though current stock Linux kernels have support for this specific onboard LAN.
I finally was able to get it working by updating the LAN firmware, using a DOS-based firmware patcher originally intended for Gigabyte boards on a floppy disk.
I have since found that I probably could have gotten around this without an update by making a slight edit to my /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules by changing the line that mentions "eth1" to "eth0," or by starting my DHCP client command line from "dhcpcd eth0" to "dhcpcd eth1."
Either way, once I modified the firmware, I was able to get it working fine within Linux and Windows, but I chose to get another board anyway and ordered an ASUS P5Q-SE2 because I wanted to be able to use all three of my legacy PCI cards (three PCI slots as opposed to this one only having two) and because this board's chipset (ICH9) doesn't coexist well with my Promise TXT2000 IDE card.
I'll keep this board as a reserve for now, but I was right to get the P5Q-SE2 as a replacement, as everything on it worked right the first time, including the LAN (after making the above mentioned edit to my udev file) and coexistence with my Promise IDE card.