hi rony. I insidentally happen happened to install ubuntu 6.06 on a machine with exactly same configuration. the mobo was a giga byte 845. I did not find any problem and believe that debian should work as well. infact ubuntu went so smoothly that the gentelman has not used any thing ever since I installed it. he is in Neral and I had told you this when I was at your place for going to the bof meeting. if there are some other specifications you need about the config, do let me know. Krishnakant.