I upgraded my mb and cpu from a celery 450 to a athlon 1.4 gig and it worked flawlessly, just make sure that your hard disks are in the same positions they were before, ie if it was a primary master before, it must be a primary master after the upgrade.
rgds frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of tek1 Sent: Saturday, 10 November 2001 2:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] mandrake/linux and upgrading cpu+motherboard i currently have mandrake8.1 running on a very old system (emachines cyrix mII 366 processor) and was wondering if my existing mandrake installation will work as is if i upgrade the cpu to say a athlon1600+ (and appropriate motherboard)? my windows system (sorry) didn't work when i tried this before b/c the existing windows installation seemed to have been bound to the specific cpu/motherboard. just wondering if this is also the case with mandrake8.1/linux systems? thanks. :)
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