Swapping the mainboard and CPU out... what do I need to know?

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 10/12/05, Senectus . <senectus at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/10/05, Steve <bassix at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Senectus . wrote:
> > > I cooked my CPU this morning :-( so I'm swapping the mainboard and CPU
> > > out from an A7n8x Asus (nforce2 chipset) and AMD Barton core 2800+,
> > > over to an Asus A8v-MX (via K8M800 chipset) and AMD 64 3200+
> > > Processor. Am I going to be able to do this without formatting and
> > > reinstalling everything?
> > >
> > > Is there any doco or procedure for a trick like this?
> >
> > You might want to google for some pointers, but basically it is very
> > straightforward. Remember to ground yourself. Make note of where all
> > cables and connectors are on the existing board. Some of the more tricky
> > ones are the several small connectors from the motherboard to the
> > chassis items such as the power button, drive light indicators etc.
> > Going from Asus to Asus should be pretty similar if not identical though.
> >
> > As far as the operating system, everything should boot up just fine. As
> > you're upgrading to AMD64, however, eventually you'll probably want to
> > upgrade your Ubuntu kernel to the AMD64 variant someday.
> >
> > Good luck!
> Thanks :-)
> yeah I know about the hardware setup.. it's booted up now and it looks
> like the X and nvidia side of it has spat the dummy.
> Is there some command your re-running the nvidia/X.org setup??

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

That'll probably do it for you.

-Eamonn