I want to upgrade my pentium pro 233 system.
It's getting pretty old, however I would like to reuse my box, cards and drives etc.
Does anyone have any experience with pentium 4 mother boards?
Thanks
AlleyTrotter

Shouldn't this go in the hardware forum and not the Slack.. ??

But, don't go posting a double question, a Mod can move it, so we'll wait for that.

Sorry, don't have any experience with Pentium 4 Motherboards myself.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by trickykid
[B]Shouldn't this go in the hardware forum and not the Slack.. ??

Maybe but I am only interested in using Slackware
AlleyTrotter

The point is that, would you ask 'my wireless card modules is loaded but iwconfig don't show anything, what could be wrong?' in the slackware forum?

Would those networking-experienced guy read your problem in the slack forum?

You should specify that next time, to me that looks like a regular old hardware question. A person in a Windows forum could answer that same question since you didn't specify a OS you would be using on it.

I know, I know, you posted in Slackware and meant for it to only be Slackware specific for your question, but it can still confuse other members that browse these forums. And it is actually better suited in the hardware forum, cause that is where the hardware guru's look for hardware related questions....

That's all..

Whatever forum it should be in, - I'm using an Abit BD7 Pentium4 board using DDR ram. It's got an Intel chipset. I went for Abit because I've used it before and it has always seemed reliable as far as Linux went - plus an identical board using SDRAM was shown as compatible in some Linux hardware sites. I took the chance and glad I did.

Although I'm using Mdk 8.2, it should be OK in other distros....?

A good bet would be checking out some Linux hardware sites - if you haven't already, that is.


Dutch

You won't be able to use your existing case/power supply with a P4.

And I'm moving this to Hardware

Yeah, I read the Slack forum every day :P and in that case a lot of problems could be related to slack due to the fact Pat Finally stuck wireless tools in with 8.1, and its a pain to get them to compile for Slack 8.0< because Jean (who wrote em) is so RH-centric. That and they interact funny in 8.1 because Pat is still married to pcmcia-cs whereas the rest of RH+Dog+world has moved on to the great kernel modules in the sky.


On to the next subject:

Yeah, moving it isn't a slap on the wrist, we're just trying to make everything a little more uniform. Plus, Aussie and I get bored over here, we're thread hogging

Last, the hardware:

I just got to play with a P4 board today. If your case was actually built to house a PPro, and it has a PSU above 250Watts, you should be good as long as you have a few case fans.

However, there never was a Pentium Pro 233, that was a PII. You can OC a PPro to 233, but that's some severe arcana that only a few people know (actually, you can take one to 266 from board jumpers alone.)

A PII case probably has a PSU in the neighborhood of 200W. The PPro was a little more of a power pig. 200W isn't going to cut it, 250 is on the light side.

Everything else, NICS, Sound card, blah blah blah will work as long as its PCI. The PPro or P2 board you have might have an ISA card or two and I don't know of any P4 boards on the market that have one. I got one of the last Mobos with one and that was back when the Athy 1.2 was smokin'

You might want to upgrade hard drives in order to get the full extent out of an ata66/100/133 interface if you get one.

Cheers,

Finegan

And I'm moving this to Hardware [/B][/QUOTE]

Thanks
I wasn't quite sure how to do it

Apologies all around for my poor forum etiquette

I should have been more specific

I am aware that I need a P4 power supply

What I am looking for is should I stay away from any particular manufacturer and/or chip set
ie. not Linux friendly

Sorry and Thanks
AlleyTrotter

Check that the chipset the board has is fully suported by the kernel first and you wont have any problems.