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I had to change motherboards, from an Asus with Intel 865G chipset to one with an VIA PT800 chipset.
I CANNOT boot anything?
Ubuntu install freezes after usb-storage: device scan complete
Yoper freezes on a segmentation fault
Suse 9.2 freezes on loading the Ramdisk
Knoppix loads but freezes at desktop
Vector freezes when trying to check partitions: seg fault
I already have Vector and Yoper on the harddrive. Made the mistake of trying to reinstall and I wiped the Yoper partition. Vector seems to be missing the inittab file.
I can't even boot into Windows!!!
Should I just get a new board???
Is it a hard drive issue? RAM? BIOS?
Have you reinstalled the OSs? Replacing the motherboard is essentially the same as getting a new computer, so everything will need to be installed again.
Have you reinstalled the OSs? Replacing the motherboard is essentially the same as getting a new computer, so everything will need to be installed again.
I had to replace the motherboard on my desktop a while back. I pulled the old one, installed the new, and booted Gentoo reasonably well. (Lacked DMA on the hard drive, sound, and AGP bus support). I rebuilt my kernel with the new drivers, rebooted again, and things worked fine.
On the other hand, with Windows, you probably do need a reinstall. I'm not so sure how well it can kick in "generic" support as a backup. My guess would be that it would just try to use the specific drivers installed from your old motherboard.
I replaced the MB b/c of a burning solder smell and the heatsink on the motherboard was pretty hot (not the CPU). Since it was one of those barebone systems, I replaces MB and Video card. Everything else is the same.
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