Re: Spontaneous unclean reboots

Curt wrote:

Maybe I should buy a new mainboard (is that the same as motherboard)?
Well, the big card at the bottom.

mainboard == motherboard
Different name for the same thing.


Open to suggestions for reliable, linux-compliant material.

Everything depends on what you are going to use it for and how much you want to spend. You will need to buy new memory and new CPU for the new motherboard.

A dual core CPU, 2GB ram and any ATX board should work quite well, in case you don't have a PIC graphics card, you will need to get a new one of that kind too, and you should go for those newer PCIe cards. I favor nVidia cards as they do deliver a quite good closed source driver which is easy to install.

As you already have spent money on the computer, you may want to spend a couple of bucks on a SATA hard drive too...

If you are going to upgrade, you will need more or less upgrade everything, just don't over spend, a quad core CPU won't make you type faster, if typing would be your main use of the computer.

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//Aho
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