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 > -- > carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie > -- Sincerely, MacNean C. Tyrrell -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
