John:
To reinforce Greg's posting, I made a simple (I thought) motherboard
upgrade in June, and it was not as painless as I'd expected. Going over
my log, the problems were related to IRQ assignments, BIOS settings and
stuff like that. Getting the Win98SE half of this beast operational was
particularly troublesome. It took several evenings. Great quantities of
amber fluids and nicotine were consumed (there being no hair left to
tear out), and the air was filled with profane mutterings about a
certain Bill G****. It must be noted that the Penguin was not
particularly happy with the change, either, but once the settings mess
was resolved, Mandrake bought into the deal, and pretty much said, "OK,
big deal. So you spent a few bucks. Now what?" All that I did was to use
the bootdisk and CD-ROM, select upgrade, and ten minutes later I was on
the web.
YMMV. And RTFineM -- several times. And, if the new board uses the VIA
chipset, pay attention. Finally, enjoy the new system.
(And how many UNIX installations are there now? My guess is at least
200.)
-- Best regards
-- Carroll
Greg Stewart wrote:
>
> I've this just this succesfully a couple of times... the only thing I had to
> worry about was the PnP settings in the BIOS, which altered the order in
> which the NICs were found and set up, and some other BIOS settings which
> were drastically different from the previous board/CPU.
>
> I don't believe you should need to re-install unless you've tried changing
> the BIOS settings to the point of insanity, and still haven't gottten
> anywhere.
>
> As long as there is no real major hardware/driver conflict I would think all
> should go well.
>
> Mine, also, could be a uniquely easy case. I don't know.
>
> --Greg
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kelly, Christopher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > John,
> >
> > I just did the CPU and MB. Linux wouldn't load for me because (i think)
> the
> > I/O ports changed. That is why I am having the (re)install problems...
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Rye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 1:48 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [newbie] MOBO Change Question
> >
> >
> > I'm about to change my mobo amd cpu.
> >
> > Can (may) I do just that and expect everything to carry on
> > as it does at present except somewhat quicker?
> >
> > I'm moving from Pentium 120 to AMD K6 on an Epox MVP3E Atx
> > motherboard and expect to just powerdown swap cards and drives
> > and re-power.
> >
> > Do I expect to much here?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > --
> > ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected"
> > (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
