I recently installed an Intel DP35DP motherboard in my primary desktop system. As usual there were a couple issues.<\/p>\n
First, the DP35DP motherboard has no serial or parallel ports and no PS\/2 mouse and keyboard ports. The mouse, keyboard and printers must all be USB devices.<\/p>\n
This motherboard has a large number of USB ports and connectors to support additional ports. There are six on-board USB ports directly accessible from the rear panel, and three USB block connectors on the motherboard that you can use to connect front-panel and other USB ports.<\/p>\n
But the real issues here are that the on-board network and audio adapters do not work \u2014 at least not with Fedora 8 which is still my distro of choice.<\/p>\n
To overcome this I simply installed a RealTek RTL8139 ethernet adapter and a SoundBlaster adapter. I configured BIOS to disable the on-board network and audio adapters. This works fine and Fedora has no issues discovering and using these devices.<\/p>\n
Another thing to be aware of with the Intel DP35DP motherboard is that it has no on-board video adapter. You must install one. I used a relatively recent nVidia which works just fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I recently installed an Intel DP35DP motherboard in my primary desktop system. As usual there were a couple issues. First, the DP35DP motherboard has no serial or parallel ports and no PS\/2 mouse and keyboard ports. The mouse, keyboard and…<\/p>\n