Icaros is not a bad OS at all :D

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Fair enough.  What version can I use that will support sanely modern hardware?

Tried it on my nvidia 590 / i7 box and it's not seeing the NIC at all.  Dual gigabit ethernet on the motherboard.

It's an off the shelf Intel i7 920 with an nVidia 590 card and dual SSD's, using a run of the mill Asus P series mobo.

Which version of AROS would be the best for me on such hardware?  I'm getting nowhere with this.  I own no machines other than my Amithlon box that have old stuff like IDE interfaces and such.  The lowest of my low end/older PC's is a Core 2 6750 with a nVidia 295 and dual SSD's.

Why do people think it's the video card and CPU that are the important details for an OS to boot?

Seriously could you at least give a motherboard model # so someone can look up what drivers are needed?

A quick and dirty Google search on some random Asus P series motherboard.  

Networking:
The Intel Nic is unsupported.  
Realtek 8111F Nic should be supported via the 8168.device

Sound:
Realtek 898 Sound very likely is not supported.

Video:
You should have at least vesa

Now I guess the real questions are.  What is YOUR motherboard model #?  What problems are you having?  "It doesn't work" is so hard to diagnose.

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"Why do people think it's the video card and CPU that are the important details for an OS to boot?"

Well, mainly cause the other dude said this OS supports more hardware than Windows 8, perhaps?  When I can't even get a display, I do think it's worth noting the make and model of the graphics card (s), lol.

Not getting even VESA mode on this machine.  Display blips then goes black.  Skulltrail mobo, dual 9975's, Dual Titan's, etc.

My i7 machine has an Asus P6T mobo and I did manage to get it working in VESA mode, but I can't see the NIC at all on it.  Installed a spare Bigfoot PCIe NIC (Killer 2100) in the machine and no dice there either.

Oh well, I tried.

Network:
Silly question but what network driver did you try?     Aros does not auto detect netcard drivers.  The correct one for the Asus P6T should be the 8169.device.  That board is supposed to have a Realtek 8111C nic.

Audio:
The ALC1200 Codec pretty sure it won't be supported yet however that would be the HDA driver if it is supported.

Video:
For now I would stick with Vesa.  The grub menu has a couple legacy modes.

As for the supports more hardware than windows 8 comment I'm pretty sure he was talking about his distro which is actually a linux hosted distro.  Aros native supports more hardware than any of the other Amigaoid OSes but it's still limited.  

   But actually letting people know what it's actually doing is much more useful than just saying it doesn't work.

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And "the screen flickered then went black" was explaining what happened.  I explained the issues I was having on the various systems I was trying every step of the way  

I was replying to this portion ... should have quoted though.

My i7 machine has an Asus P6T mobo and I did manage to get it working in VESA mode, but I can't see the NIC at all on it. Installed a spare Bigfoot PCIe NIC (Killer 2100) in the machine and no dice there either.