OK only speaking from the experience on my laptop. (also asus)
and ill be mainly repeating what i said on another thread.
mageia 1 2 3 and upcoming 4 have no out of the box support during installation for UEFI BIOS.
so you need to enable backwards compatible booting and disable secure boot.
watch out for the distorted sound problem, that some of us experience with some of these usb based on board audio when you turn up the volume.
solution to that prob is buy a cheap audigy of ebay for about £25 they work fine under mageia.
that board has two PCI slots so your OK with the audigy.
I just read the manual for this board and that board is similar specs to my crosshair v formula and has a very similar uefi bios.
there is no option for secure boot or backwards compatibility mode (and i think this is only required for PC's shipping complete with windows 8.)
the only uefi specific option is
Launch EFI Shell from filesystem device
This option allows you to attempt to launch the UEFI Shell application (shellx64.efi) from one of the available filesystem devices.
that requires you to setup a uefi partition of about 256 meg containing the uefi bits to support widowns 8.
without this I think you will find this board OK with mageia as i do with my crosshair v formula.
So in my opinion the only issue your may face is the sound.
based on what ive read.
regards peter
ps
just done a google on this
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 88#p526788so thats an experienced opinion.
also here from asus's FAQ
I have installed Windows operating system under UEFI mode. I found that Windows will not load if I move a non-UEFI device to the top of the boot device sequence, and “Windows Boot Manager” is moved to 2nd or later sequence. How do I resolve this issue?
When a non-UEFI device is moved to the top of the boot device sequence, the system will boot in legacy BIOS mode instead of UEFI mode. Consequently, the system will not be able to load the Windows operating system installed under UEFI mode.
To work around this this issue, please do the following:
1. Always set “Windows Boot Manager” as the first priority boot device when the operating system is installed under UEFI mode.
2. Press the “F8” key to bring up the boot manager at the bootup, if you would to select another boot device.
so if its windows 7 you are using, just dont use uefi, install your windows 7 in standard mode, then linux wont have an issue.
if its windows 8 you are going for you will need to follow the advise of those on how to put mageia into uefi mode post install.