A motherboard problem

A strange problem occured on the computer when I installed Fedora Core 5. For odd reason, GRUB will appears on text mode without bootscreen. This is the first time that problem occured as I didn't have any problem with previous release dual booting with Windows XP.

It turned out the BIOS for Asus A7S8X-MX will refuse to recognize GRUB so I had to boot Fedora using the Ultimate Boot CD. I have the latest version of BIOS update. I learned that motherboard was really cheap so I already order a new motherboard with Athlon 64 +3200. It will be the first time I will enter into a 64 bit hardware world.
I will still use x86 Fedora Core and I plan to use x86_64 only for Rawhide testing.

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