-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 xiaohuli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > > I plan to put in a new motherboard ( P4 ) and a new > cpu ( p 4 ) into my win-xp/FC1 ( kernel 2.6.1 ) box, > which currently had a P III 450MHZ processor. Has > anybody done that ? Do I need to recompile the kernel > ? And what else I need to do for FC1 to work ? If the motherboard's chipset is supported, you can do the upgrade, and kudzu should find the changes and handle them easily. > > What about Win XP ? Do I need to reinstall it ? Do I > need to reinstall all applications including games for > XP ? XP is another story. If you are lucky, it may boot up with the new hardware and only ask you to re-register your copy of XP. Most likely, however, it will not boot, and you will have to reinstall. > > Would I get into more trouble if I put in an AMD/Athlon > processor instead of Intel stuff ? Once again, it depends on the chipset. The VIA KT400 chipset should work great, and the Nvidia nforce2 on a Gigagbyte GA-7N400 Pro2 mobo has worked fine for me (the Gigabyte does not use the Nvidia lan. If you get a mobo that uses the nvidia lan chipset, you will need to download the driver from Nvidia and compile it.) I recently installed on a VIA KT600 chipset, and everything worked well, except the AGP port was not properly recognized, and there was no dri. Going to a 2.6 kernel fixed that, though. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAITdJL6ubqSVs8LERAkxNAJ4xsvMGUpp0IFc9943vfWSTwGMwfACgkWAk n2b6kNWK//fE2aWw9QgOmsA= =uZ8u -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
