Finally have to replace my motherboard after 5+ years. I have received an ASUS A88X-PLUS with an AMD A8-7600 APU unused from a friend at a good price. Has anyone had experience with this board/apu that would be willing to pass along their experiences/tips? I will need to get a new case due to the current desktop PC being severely damaged in a fire (not caused by the PC) so it will be several days before installing the new system. I should be able to use the existing drives or at least the backed-up drive images from an external source. questions: 1: What must be done to boot with the new MB/APU? 2: Does the OS (openSuSE 13.1-x86-64) need to be re-installed or can changes be accomplished using repair? 3: Video of new apu is ATI Radeon HD-7000. Is this version natively supported or should I boot into VGA and find a driver for it? Thanks, Tom -- Forgiveness is really not about someone’s harmful behavior; it’s about our own relationship with our past. When we begin the work of forgiveness, it is primarily a practice for ourselves. - Gina Sharpe, “The Power of Forgiveness ^^ --... ...-- / -.- --. --... -.-. ..-. -.-. ^^^^ Tom Taylor KG7CFC openSUSE 13.1 (64-bit), Kernel 3.11.6-4-default, KDE 4.11.2, AMD Phenom X4 955, GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Nvidia 337.19) 16GB RAM -- 3x1.5TB sata2 -- 128GB-SSD FF 27.0, claws-mail 3.10.0 registered Linux user 263467 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org