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Natanji

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 134

Upgrading mainboard in Laptop from Intel 945GM to 965 chipset

Basically just meant to ask: if I upgrade the mainboard with a new one that has a slightly different chipset, should I do anything in Arch prior to it? Like, does the ramdisk that I have right now contain the other chipset's drivers as well? If not, how do I build a ramdisk for a different chipset? Will I have to boot from Arch install and mkinitcpio from there once I switched, or something like that?

hadrons123

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From: chennai

Registered: 2011-10-07

Posts: 1,249

Re: Upgrading mainboard in Laptop from Intel 945GM to 965 chipset

Nothing I can think off, that would stop you from booting into new hardware, except wifi, if its a different card.

Last edited by hadrons123 (2012-07-02 10:01:39)

Natanji

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 134

Re: Upgrading mainboard in Laptop from Intel 945GM to 965 chipset

No, I'll reuse the old card. Sounds great!