Motherboard Change- will Fedora survive?

Joel Jaeggli joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Sun Apr 18 16:44:37 UTC 2004


On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Gary Waters wrote:

> Yes, this is a newbie question...sorry ;-)
> 
> I presently have an ECS K7S5A motherboard with an SIS-735 chipset. I'm
> running an AMD XP2000+ CPU. I am considering upgrading to the ECS KT-600
> Motherboard with a VIA KT600 Chipset:
> 
> http://www.ecsusa.com/products/af1lite.html
> 
> The Board does have SATA ports, which I will not be using. I will more
> than likely upgrade to an XP2600+ or higher CPU.
> 
> My question is simple: will Fedora survive the transition and/or what
> should I expect in terms of results?

yeah it should work. The fedora kernel has drivers for all the relevant 
bits... I recently made the switch from an intel 815 pIII-933 
mainboard/processor in my primary machine to a althon 64 3000+ on a msi 
kt8neo fisr and it was flawless on first boot.
 
> Thanks to all who respond...
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
> 

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