Upgrading my motherboard & processor

[Laurent Asorne]

On Thursday 27 September 2007 05:03:37 D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On Sunday 23 September 2007, Laurent Asorne wrote:
> > Hi there! I'd like to upgrade my motherboard & processor. Actually I have
> > an old AMD K7 800MHz on some simple motherboard (don't know the specs of
> > it...) and I'd like to order an AMD Athlon64 x2 3800+ (2x 2000 MHz) w/2x
> > 512 KB Cache and an ASROCK AM2NF3-VSTA Mainboard SO.AM2 (that's what the
> > catalogue says...). It has an nVidia nForce3 250 Chipset with onboard LAN
> > and onboard sound. Is there anybody out there with some experience of
> > this material and Kubuntu 7.04? What do I have to do in order to emigrate
> > safely ?
>
> Leaving out the physical hardware issues, and I'm not sure if you can
> perform that upgrade without also pulling in a new power supply, your
> biggest problem getting up and running is going to be the difference
> between whatever you use for video now, and what you're moving to.  If you
> already use some kind of NVIDIA, you can probably just boot it and go.  The
> kernel/startup scripts automatically adjust to whatever is in the box for
> the most part, so it's no different from moving your hard drive to a
> different computer.  The big and immediate deal breaker is usually video,
> like you had ATI or i810 before, and now you have NVIDIA, and your X server
> will be busted until you fix it from the command line.
> --
> D. Michael McIntyre

Actually, my video card is an Riva TNT2 (think it has nvidia Gforce2 chipset) 
running alright with the nv driver. So, I don't think there will be any 
difficulty from the video side, even if the chipset changes?

Laurent Asorne

-- 
The box said 'Requires Windows XP or better'. So I installed LINUX