On Feb 19, 2008 7:19 PM, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Feb 19, 2008 4:04 PM, Lief Hendrickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Does anyone have an idea where I can get a Pentium III CPU?  The stores
> > don't carry them anymore.
> > One of my computers had the CPU fan go bad and the Pentium III CPU got
> > hot.  Now the motherboard won't boot.  I thought I would try a different
> > CPU before trashing the motherboard which I hate to do because of all
> the
> > OS and software configuring that will be lost.
> > Thanks for any help.
>
> You might look at: <http://www.weirdstuff.com/cgi-bin/category/10192>.
> For that matter, I find 578 listings on eBay under category
> Home->Buy->Computers & Networking->Desktop & Laptop Components
> ->CPUs for Desktop PC->Intel->Pentium III
>
> But I would ask why you are anticipating a loss of OS and software
> configuring.  Linux does not do configuration stuff the way Windows
> does, and generally adapts itself to what it finds at boot time.
>

Yep, this has been my experience.  I've prolly swapped in and out 4-5
difference CPU/Motherboards on my Mythtv Box without problems.


>
>    carl
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