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[Josh2112 <josh2112@xxxxxxxxx>]

Indeed, it appears to be so.

I have a brand-new ASUS M3N78 Pro motherboard.  After some Google
searching it appears this mobo has a lot of flakiness and general
instability under Linux.  A lot of users mention random hard locks
related to the NVidia driver and this board.  Also mouse freezes, which
I am currently experiencing.  If I unplug and replug my USB mouse or
keyboard, they won't reconnect.  The BIOS is the flakiest thing I've
ever seen in my life... several times it has just "forgotten" settings
on a fresh boot (things I had disabled, like the fullscreen logo,
suddenly come back), the ExpressGate works only when it feels like it,
and sometimes I'll get a "CMOS checksum error, factory settings
restored".  A lot of the time, after a lock-up and hard reset cycle in
Linux, the mobo refuses to even boot back up, I have to actually turn
off the power supply for a couple seconds.

There are a lot of solutions mentioned online, various kernel parameters
like "pci=nomsi", "noacpi" and "acpi=off" (none of these have worked for
me so far) and even disabling the onboard USB completely as the source
of some of the lockups seems to be a conflicting IRQ between the onboard
GeForce 8300 and the USB controller.

I will try manually installing the latest drivers from the NVidia
website.  If that doesn't work, unless anybody else has a suggestion I'm
going to send this board back (for the second time) and try something
completely different.  I guess that'll teach me to do some Googling
before buying new hardware :-(

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