On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 07:09 -0700, Randy Wyatt wrote: > On 6/30/06, Don Maxwell <don.maxwell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It appears that my current motherboard is flaking out on me. It is 6 > > yrs old so I got my money's worth out of it for sure! > > > > What is the prevailing thought on replacing a MB in an existing system? > > > > I really want to preserve what I can in terms of applications and > > configurations. Obviously, all the I/O will be different. Video, > > audio, and LAN concerns do give me pause. > > > > The PC has two hard disks: One 30 GB where most everything resides > > and one 80GB which is my /home partition. > > > > The options seem to be: > > 1) Pop the new MB in and hope that Kudzu figures everything out > > 2) Reinstall FC5 over my existing setup > > 3) Blow away everything on my 30 GB disk and start mostly from > > scratch, using my various backed up .conf files? > > > > Thanks! > > --Don > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > Will you be changing the CPU? and do you use the generic kernel as > provided by redhat? > I have brought up redhat after a moterboard and CPU change just fine. > It only required a little modification. You will have to reconfigure > X after the system comes up so you may want to make sure that you > boot into runlevel 3. > Hi I have done this very thing this week. New MB with the same CPU, memory and disk. FC5 sorted everything out on the first boot. I did use the same Graphics card though. Magic John
