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?
Re: Doing RAID0 dangerous ? ... I was wondering if I will be able to take this pair of hard disks to ... > another motherboard in the future and still be able to see all the data ... > it has intact (somebody told me that the motherboard supported RAID is ... It is WAY faster than software RAID.... (comp.os.linux.networking)
Re: Help with pin2000 ... Not sure what happened to the old motherboard,... mean by disable the CPU temp?... a little LED on the prism card that lites yellow, ... plug into hard disks, etc from the power supply won't help diagnose ... (rec.games.pinball)
Re: wipe broken disk ... my preferred solution, but it takes ages or hangs.... For whatever it's worth, I used to work for a company that reconditioned ... For disposal of hard disks... (comp.os.linux.hardware)
Re: combining 2 power supplies ... The problem is the current power supply might not be able to support so many hard disks running at the same time. ... Instead of buying a new, more powerful power supply, I am planning to use one old piece to serve the motherboard, CD, and 3 hard disks, then another power supply to serve 3 to 4 more hard disks. ... In other words, only one power supply can plug to the motherboard, how can I jam the wires together so that the second power supply receive the power-on signal when I press the button? ... I've measured a number of computers with a power analyzer and I have yet to see one which draws more than 250W from the wall under full load, most typical single CPU computers are down around 160-180W even with multiple hard drives. ... (sci.electronics.repair)
