[PLUG] best server motherboard?

Don Buchholz buchholz at easystreet.com
Fri Dec 13 03:54:16 UTC 2002


Carla Schroder wrote:
> It's a quiet day, so what the heck. Ferocious debate going on over what's the 
> best motherboard for a Linux Web server? Just a plain, dependable mobo 
> without silly frills? I say you can't go wrong with IBM boards, but I'm being 
> pummeled by a hardcore MSI aficionado who adores the ones with onboard IDE 
> RAID. For some weird reason, ASUS still has devotees, too.
> 

Well I know, from experience, that ASUS is certainly lacking
when it comes to built-in diagnostics.  IBM has them.  Can't
speak for MSI.

IMHO, there's nothing that sucks more than a (server) mother-
board which can't even run a check on it's own memory and
report a failing module.  (Had a bad DIMM a few months ago
which probably cost more in labor/time/frustration to trouble-
shoot than buying IBM/HP/Dell/etc. would've cost in the first
place.)

When one suspects hardware problems, it's really nice to press
[F1/Delete/Tab/....] and go into BIOS diag routines to test the
system -- or at least have a bootable CD with diag tests which
actually matches the hardware in the system.

- Don






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