From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 13:49:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 742C037B9F8 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:49:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00633; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:49:08 -0700 Message-ID: <3974C2D0.8F8EDEE1@urx.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:49:20 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: zerohero Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Mobo, new install? References: <000201bff0f1$c7447440$f8fafed4@zerohero> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > zerohero wrote: > > I'm getting ready to upgrade my dual-boot Windows 98/FreeBSD > computer with a new motherboard so my Geforce can run at full speed > (damn old Athlon mobos). I've installed new motherboard in Windows > without reformatting before, and everything seems to work out fine > although it's probably better to reformat anyways. I was wondering > if BSD will have any problems if I switch motherboards, or if i'm > going to have to reinstall. I upgraded from a P133 to a Celeron 433. This is a class jump in the cpu but I don't remember having problems moving up. If you have a current version of GENERIC, you shouldn't have any problem (Just in case something breaks). Configuring a kernel and making it should be really quick. I finally started upgrading GENERIC as 4.0 started upgrading to 4.1. I realized the /kernel.GENERIC was a 4.0-Release version and really out of date. The only card that was kept was the NIC. The only significant problem I ran into was XFree86 3.3.3. I suddenly had a good video card (2MB pci > agp) and trying to deal with the configuration settings was a problem. The configuration was setup for the old video card and mouse and trying to run XFree86Setup would hang on 3.3.3. There were times when I almost wiped it and then reinstalled x-windows. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ Bomber dropping fire retardant in front of Hanford Wild fire. http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/bomber.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message