It's not looking good...
If I enable AHCI mode, the system hangs for a long time after printing the line "Unicode translate table for CP 850 loaded." If I leave the system alone at that point, I get a trap screen after some minutes.
In IDE/ATA mode the system works better, but very slowly. Danis506 runs the disk in PIO4 mode (because the controller is not recognized?), which results in the stellar read/write speed of 2MB/s according to SysBench...
I thought the NIC was working, but the driver is just installed without error messages. But if I try to transfer data (ping etc.) no packets actually get through. I have tried the MMRE, R8169 and R8110 drivers. They all install, but none of them actually work. According to PCI.EXE, the NIC is a 10EC:8168.
No USB ports work. The drivers report that no USB controllers are found during boot. According to the docs the board should include both USB2 and USB3 ports, but the USB2 ports are not discovered .
But some change I made (removing the command line options of ACPI.PSD? changing NIC drivers?), made the command line work again.
I guess I should look for a board that works better
But are there any relevant tests I should perform, to get some feedback for the driver developers?