[Coco] OT -- Linux hardware

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 23 December 2003 00:06, Merv Curley wrote:
>On December 20, 2003 10:47 pm, Dave Kelly wrote:
>> I would like to replace the mother board. I could not find an
>> exact duplicate here in Houston but did find what I think to be an
>> equivilant. My question is:
>> Will this be as simple as take all the plugins ( CPU, memory, etc
>> ) switching them over to the new MB and installing it?
>
>I have moved hard drives etc from a AMD k6-3 processor MB to quite
> new Athlon series with no problems.  You will probably want newer
> high speed memory to go with the new processor.  It isn't worth it
> to upgrade to an equivilent MB, in my opinion.  Next year we'll be
> upgrading to 64 bit processors.
>
>As already mentioned if your kernel has been seriously specialized
> for the old MB, you might have a problem but everything else
> probably doesn't know about microprocessors, memory etc.
>
>--
>Merv Curley

Hot diggities,  Merv finally checked in.  Welcome!

>Scarborough,  Ont
>
>Libranet Linux  2.8   KDE 3.1.4   KMail 1.5.4

Heck you're ahead of me a wee bit, I must be getting in a rut in my 
old age. :-)

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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Athlon1600XP at 1400mhz  512M
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