Hardware changes

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The cpu on my workstation was no longer being reported correctly so I "upgraded" to some newer old technology. I spent about $70 total on a new motherboard and cpu, and about the same on memory and a new heatsink for the new cpu.

I moved to a 64 bit Sempron 3000+ and a Biostar mobo with an NVidia chipset. I also installed an Arctic Cooling Freezer64Pro heatsink, and I have to say I am flat out impressed with it. At idle my cpu temps are at 79 Fahrenheit and never get above 90 Fahrenheit even under heavy load, and that's with a room temperature of 70. That's all in an old case with only 1 exhaust fan and the psu fan.

The other thing about this upgrade? I made the hardware changes and booted right back into my old install. I changed nothing software-wise. That's right. I went from a 32 bit to a 64 bit cpu, changed motherboard chipset manufacturers and memory types, AGP slot versions from 4x to 8x, moved from an old Soundblaster 512 pci card to a built-in sound card, hooked my psu, hard drives and cdrom into the motherboard and Debian just booted up as if nothing had changed. Well, the hardware was a lot faster, but other than that, nothing. It was so easy it was boring. I didn't have to change anything. Networking worked, video and audio worked, and I didn't even have to call in and ask Debian to re-authorize my installation..... I just booted into a fully working machine.

When was the last time you made that many hardware changes on your Windows machine and booted right back to your original installation while making zero changes to your Windows installation?

 

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Wow! That's awesome. You da man, Freddy...or Debian's *the* OS.

 

LOL. Yeah, it had little to do with me. It's just impressive when a person can make that many hardware changes, and have their install boot right back up and be fully working without making any configuration changes.

 

Since when does the hal not have to be changed on Windows when complete architecture changes are made in the hardware? I've never been that lucky.

 

Ah, but then you didn't just boot into a functioning install. I just changed the hardware and booted the machine. Period.

 

Did you have to reactivate it?

 

Changed graphics card 3x
Changed memory 3x
Changed sound card 2x
Added second HD

All under XP Pro without having to reactivate or whatever. Story would have been different if I changed the CPU or mobo methinks.

 

Don't forget that there is a 90 day timeout on changes - after that the points evaporate.

Harry.

 

But these changes have happened progressively over the last 1.5 years.

 

LOL. Yeah, well I also had postgres, mysql, and zope/plone server installations running too with the zope/plone install proxying through a virtual server on Apache.. This machine isn't only my workstation. It's a server in my lab too.

Now, what all that had to do with anything I don't know, but the fact that a DC had to have a repair install run on it to bring it back must a been a little scary as Windows just doesn't have a good reputation for living through complete hal changes.

The fact that Linux will adapt itself to another complete architecture without a hiccup is a real plus for Linux.

 

Exactly my point. If you do the changes gradualy, using the timeout period then you don't ever have to re-activate.

The only problem comes if you change something that has too many points associated with it. I don't know, but I suspect that only changing the motherboard would have enough points.

Harry.

 

How dare you upgrade your motherboard without first reporting to redmond ! ... tsk... tsk...