[ale] similar weirdness

[Jeff Lightner]

If its FC running "kudzu -p" might detect it for you.  That works in FC4 and above though I've not done it with your mobo.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Warren Myers
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:45 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] similar weirdness

 

all the mobos I've looked at recently have IDE and SATA support, so you should be good there

I've also only ever personally run FC6 (though F7 is due out shortly), and that was on a batch of elcheapo weekend special Dells - 2.4G celeron something-or-others with 1 GB RAM.

Never had a problem with any of them.

However, just dropping the drives into the new system may cause some headaches as hardware may or may not be detected, etc, by the current install of FC3. 

WMM

On 5/31/07, Sean Kilpatrick <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:

On Thursday 31 May 2007 13:02, Warren Myers wrote:
| what window manager are you running, and which distro?

Running straight KDE on an FC-3 box, which appears to have a
dieing mobo.

I sent the following letter to ALE earlier this morning, but 
apparently it never got there.

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subject:  mobo question

According to the manual, my ASUS A7N266-VM mobo was made in March, 2002.

Of late it has been having problems finding the BIOS chip and data on
startup.  (It sometimes stalls for 30 seconds, sometimes for 120 seconds.

Yesterday evening, after being away for more than two weeks, I turned on 
the computer and cleared out the email queue. Then I shut off the monitor
but left the computer on (usual practice).  This morning the computer would
not display anything on the monitor (normally any input from the mouse or 
the keyboard brings up the desktop).  I had to do a hard shutdown.

Ouch.

I'm thinking this mobo is not long for this world.

So I could use some suggestions for a new mobo.

I don't need the latest cutting edge.  I believe that any new mobo is going 
to assume SATA drives.  I am running a two drive software RAID on IDE drives
now.  Can a new mobo handle the older drives so I can just plug them in and
keep going (this assumes Nvidia video) or am I doomed to a clean install of 
everything on new drives? Creating a new backup of /home on a USB external
drive is trivial.

Related question:  assuming I stay with FC, what are the advantages/gotchas
of 32/64-bit chips?

Or do I just give up, buy an all-knew machine, install Linux and wait for 
the next Install Fest to get RAID up and running?

Sean
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