Recent content by bob the destroyer

I have a brand-new Asus M4A78T-E which won't boot if an IDE drive is connected. It POSTs, but hangs at "Asus Express Gate". I don't get any beep codes or any error messages on the screen. I can boot from a SATA drive fine. I've tried 3 different IDE drives. I can't confirm the IDE drives...

I'm building a budget (~NZ$ 1200) PC in the next couple of weeks. The most important app is Supreme Commander. I also want to use Ubuntu. I think these parts have good linux support--the Radeon 4000's seem well supported by ATI. SupComm seems to multicore well, judging by benchmarks, so I...