I have 8.2 setup and running and now I'm thinking of changing my motherboard and upgrading my processor and memory. If I just unplug everything, put the new MB, processor and memory in and power the box up, am I going to run into a load of problems? What potential problems will I have? Tom -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 19:22, Tom Nielsen wrote:
If I just unplug everything, put the new MB, processor and memory in and power the box up, am I going to run into a load of problems? What potential problems will I have?
The only potential problem I can see is if you're currently running an Athlon with the k_athlon kernel, and you're replacing it with an Intel CPU. Then you'd probably have to boot from the CD and install the deflt kernel to get things running. But apart from that it should be painless. Just make sure you put the hard drives and CD players in the same order
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 10:25, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 19:22, Tom Nielsen wrote:
If I just unplug everything, put the new MB, processor and memory in and power the box up, am I going to run into a load of problems? What potential problems will I have?
The only potential problem I can see is if you're currently running an Athlon with the k_athlon kernel, and you're replacing it with an Intel CPU.
Actually, I'm going to keep the AMD, just move up to a faster one. I gather it shouldn't change anything.
Then you'd probably have to boot from the CD and install the deflt kernel to get things running.
But apart from that it should be painless. Just make sure you put the hard drives and CD players in the same order
-- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
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Actually, I'm going to keep the AMD, just move up to a faster one. I gather it shouldn't change anything. I have done this a few times an had no problems at all. I reused the same video an nics an sound card an everthing worked on reboot into new system. I stay with amd cpu's thrue all the changes.
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Tom Nielsen wrote:
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 10:25, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 19:22, Tom Nielsen wrote:
If I just unplug everything, put the new MB, processor and memory in and power the box up, am I going to run into a load of problems? What potential problems will I have?
The only potential problem I can see is if you're currently running an Athlon with the k_athlon kernel, and you're replacing it with an Intel CPU.
Actually, I'm going to keep the AMD, just move up to a faster one. I gather it shouldn't change anything.
Then you'd probably have to boot from the CD and install the deflt kernel to get things running.
But apart from that it should be painless. Just make sure you put the hard drives and CD players in the same order
You won't have any trouble simply putting in a new mobo + cpu. However, make sure that the BIOS settings are the same as on the old mobo (or as close as possible of course). Linux assumes that it is the BIOS that controls everything (meaning, that you always "tell" the BIOS that you do not have a PnP OS installed). (It would pay to print out the existing BIOS settings to hardcopy before you start your upgrade.) -- I was very heavily into pornography. Then my pornograph broke.
Tom Nielsen wrote:
I have 8.2 setup and running and now I'm thinking of changing my motherboard and upgrading my processor and memory.
If I just unplug everything, put the new MB, processor and memory in and power the box up, am I going to run into a load of problems? What potential problems will I have?
Are you bootimg from the onboard-ide/scsi-controller ? Is this the same type ? And check your boot-commandline and modules.conf for starting any modules with irq and ioport options, they may differ. -- Gruß, Andreas
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 12:22 pm, Tom Nielsen wrote:
I have 8.2 setup and running and now I'm thinking of changing my motherboard and upgrading my processor and memory.
If I just unplug everything, put the new MB, processor and memory in and power the box up, am I going to run into a load of problems? What potential problems will I have?
Tom
A lot depends on the mb, but I did that on a couple of machines and on boot SuSE sensed the change and made adjustments automagically. Of course the hwscan was enabled! If I were doing it, I would simply change it out and see what happens. You could always go back to the original if somethng untoward happened. regards, Richard
I just bought a new MB (at the recommendation of someone on this list) and it comes with a specific requirement that you DO NOT just plug in your old drive and try to boot up. They are thinking Windows, which ought to be easier to deal with than Linux (sorry!) but that's the word from Azus. I.E., reinstall the OS. good luck--doug At 10:22 07/08/2003 -0700, Tom Nielsen wrote:
I have 8.2 setup and running and now I'm thinking of changing my motherboard and upgrading my processor and memory.
If I just unplug everything, put the new MB, processor and memory in and power the box up, am I going to run into a load of problems? What potential problems will I have?
Tom --
Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 http://www.neuro-logic.com/www.neuro-logic.com
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 2:22 am, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I just bought a new MB (at the recommendation of someone on this list) and it comes with a specific requirement that you DO NOT just plug in your old drive and try to boot up. They are thinking Windows, which ought to be easier to deal with than Linux (sorry!) but that's the word from Azus. I.E., reinstall the OS. <snip>
Windows has huge problems if you swap a hard disk from one motherboard to another. The low-level drivers are integrated into the system, more. Linux is a lot more flexible in this respect -- when you boot it does a lot of auto-detect magic for the low level drivers. So it's a lot easier than Windows. ;-) I've swapped motherboards and not reinstalled SuSE, and it's worked fine. The main gotchas are if you're swapping the processor between Intel and AMD or if you've got a self-compiled kernel with loads of stuff deselected to fit your machine. Regars, Jason
I would agree that you should practice this behavior if you are using Windows, which is decidedly NOT easier about these things. However such behavior is not requred for Linux (did it just this weekend and also last month - two different machines - went like a breeze). I guess if they say things enough we get to believe them, even if we know better. mg On Tuesday 08 July 2003 21:22, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I just bought a new MB (at the recommendation of someone on this list) and it comes with a specific requirement that you DO NOT just plug in your old drive and try to boot up. They are thinking Windows, which ought to be easier to deal with than Linux (sorry!) but that's the word from Azus. I.E., reinstall the OS.
good luck--doug
At 10:22 07/08/2003 -0700, Tom Nielsen wrote:
I have 8.2 setup and running and now I'm thinking of changing my motherboard and upgrading my processor and memory.
If I just unplug everything, put the new MB, processor and memory in and power the box up, am I going to run into a load of problems? What potential problems will I have?
Tom --
Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 http://www.neuro-logic.com/www.neuro-logic.com
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