Re: Spontaneous unclean reboots

On 2008-09-23, J.O. Aho <user@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

mainboard == motherboard
Different name for the same thing.

Right.

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.

Yes, I figured that out today while looking for boards on the net.

And also, since I have an old nvidia agp graphics card, and they don't
make those kinds of slots anymore, I'll be needing a new card.

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.

Right, one of those pci-e cards. A lot of these boards seem to have
built-in ethernet. How's that working in linux, or does it depend
entirely on the "brand"? I could always put the D-Link I'm using now in
there, if there's a regular pci slot--there always seems to be one, but
only one.

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

Well, yes, I think that's the thing to do, seeing that these boards
I've been looking at only have one ATA IDE connector, and if I used it
for my current hard drive, I wouldn't be able to hook up my dvd player.
Maybe the latter exist with a SATA interface, but I think I'll just do
a fresh install on a new SATA drive.

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.

Correct. I don't need too muscular a machine for what I do.
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