After almost 2 years, I am giving up on having the MSI RS480M2-IL works under Linux. The m/b just so unstable, it crashes under heavy disk load, and other situations.

I replaced it with a Asus A8V-E SE and a cheap EN6200TC graphics card (cost CAN$126). From the spec it's less impressive as it has only 2 SATA, no build-in video, and no Firewire. However, I only use 2 SATA and has no firewire device anyway.

I am running stress test on it right now, so far I am happy about it. One thing I noticed is the syslog is much more quiet now, which used to have a lot of APIC errors.

Now, if all runs well, this setup will be my main server for the next 2-3 years.

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