new motherboard and cpu with Fedora {Scanned}

[Randy Kelsoe]

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xiaohuli at alumni.princeton.edu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I  plan to put in a new motherboard ( P4 ) and a new
> cpu ( p 4 ) into my win-xp/FC1 ( kernel 2.6.1 ) box,
> which currently had a P III 450MHZ processor.   Has
> anybody done that ?  Do I need to recompile the kernel
> ?  And what else I need to do for FC1 to work ?

If the motherboard's chipset is supported, you can do the upgrade, and
kudzu should find the changes and handle them easily.
>
> What about Win XP ?  Do I need to reinstall it ? Do I
> need to reinstall all applications including games for
> XP ?

XP is another story. If you are lucky, it may boot up with the new
hardware and only ask you to re-register your copy of XP. Most likely,
however, it will not boot, and you will have to reinstall.
>
> Would I get into more trouble if I put in an AMD/Athlon
> processor instead of Intel stuff ?

Once again, it depends on the chipset. The VIA KT400 chipset should work
great, and the Nvidia nforce2 on a Gigagbyte GA-7N400 Pro2 mobo has
worked fine for me (the Gigabyte does not use the Nvidia lan. If you get
a mobo that uses the nvidia lan chipset, you will need to download the
driver from Nvidia and compile it.) I recently installed on a VIA KT600
chipset, and everything worked well, except the AGP port was not
properly recognized, and there was no dri. Going to a 2.6 kernel fixed
that, though.


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