[ubuntu-uk] possible to install ubuntu like gentoo?

[Tan, Xuan]

Farran: been there, done that. =)

When I was 15 I single-handedly fried three motherboards because I
failed to notice the dark spot on the video card that had just toasted.
I swapped the video card out to test (didn't have a spare video card,
but had a few spare mobos with AGP slots in them around). (that probably
reveals how old I am now heh.)

Be careful when diagnosing/testing!

XuanYou Tan

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From: ubuntu-uk-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-uk-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Farran Lee
Sent: 17 April 2008 17:48
To: British Ubuntu Talk
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] possible to install ubuntu like gentoo?



On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:44 +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote: 

	Farran Lee wrote:
	> lots of people have had problems with the same motherboard.
	
	I'd call that a fairly massive hint, and other than hard drive
failure, 
	I'd say we're coming to the end of the list of possibilties.
	
	Update the motherboard BIOS, and if it still won't play, swap it
out for 
	a spare motherboard and see if that fixes it.
	
	Of course, I'm saying this as someone aged 37 with a shed full
of 
	obsolete PC spares I can delve through; the only worry being
whether the 
	mice have eaten/pooed-on anything important (clue: never keep
chicken 
	food and electronics in the same shed).
	
	If you're 15 and have just bought your first... everything...
then 
	you're probably going to have to make friends with someone who
can lend 
	you a spare.
	
	By "spare" I mean "they won't mind if you break it". Do NOT
disassemble 
	your best mate's very expensive, and only, PC and then discover
that 
	your PSU subtly fries every motherboard it comes into contact
with.
	
	I recommend joining your local Linux User Group and finding
someone with 
	their own shed full of spares nearby!
	
	http://lug.org.uk
	
	-- 
	Andrew Oakley
	
	
	


okay, will do :D
actually I don't have any friends...

that have anywhere full of 'spare' m/bs. Weird really :/

I'll RMA it if they'll accept, and if that doesn't work, I'll get a new
one. got a separate /home partition, so if anything goes wrong, I can
safely (I hope) reinstall it :D


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Farran Lee
I'm only 15 :P