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#1 2008-02-28 14:52:07

Falcata
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Mobo + HDD Upgrade

I am planning on, at some point in the future, upgrading the motherboard and hard drive on my system.  I have a couple of questions on this topic:

1) How well do the nForce mobo's from nVidia work with Linux?
2) How well does Linux handle being migrated to a new hard drive?
3) In both cases above, will I need to do any system reconfigurations, or will I need to backup my data and reinstall everything?  And what are the risks involved, other than botching the upgrade?

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#2 2008-02-28 14:58:48

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Re: Mobo + HDD Upgrade

1) Well.  I use a nForce mobo and I've never had any problems with it.
2) Well.  See this guide for example of how such a procedure might look.  It's a routine operation, I've done it many times.  You might have to boot using  install CD on the first boot from the new HD and run mkinitcpio to regenerate kernel boot image, you might have to reinstall grub as well but that's about it as far as complications are concerned.
3) Backup is always a good idea.  You shouldn't have to reinstall though.

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#3 2008-02-28 15:04:02

Falcata
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Re: Mobo + HDD Upgrade

Which nForce model do you have?

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#4 2008-02-28 15:25:50

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Re: Mobo + HDD Upgrade

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a … 6813188006 -- this exact mobo.  I wouldn't recommend it, for various reasons, but I've no complaints as far as Linux compatibility is concerned.

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#5 2008-02-28 16:53:44

SiC
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Re: Mobo + HDD Upgrade

Same, run an nForce5 board on ye olde desktop, works perfectly nary a problem at all.

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#6 2008-02-28 19:19:09

Falcata
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Re: Mobo + HDD Upgrade

fwojciec wrote:

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a … 6813188006 -- this exact mobo.  I wouldn't recommend it, for various reasons, but I've no complaints as far as Linux compatibility is concerned.

I probably wouldn't use that model, since it's made for an AMD processor rather than an Intel processor (pentium4 is what I use).

SiC wrote:

Same, run an nForce5 board on ye olde desktop, works perfectly nary a problem at all.

That's actually what I was looking at getting.

Last edited by Falcata (2008-02-28 19:19:50)

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