From: Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:52:57 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121214185257.GN8486@server> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121214184301.GE19095@crowfix.com>
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 01:43:01PM -0500, felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:34:49PM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote:
>
> > Boot with SystemRescueCd and you can't get to a prompt?
>
> Currently can't even boot -- it hangs wit a blank screen at the point grub or the rescue DVD would take over.
>
> > Yes, your southbridge chipset could just happened to have failed at the same
> > time; or it failed on the reboot; or USB and SATA are both on the southbridge
> > that failed so you lost both, basically.
>
> Then my natural naive question is, can this be readily replaced, or is it soldered in and/or obsolete? It is about 8 years old.
An 8-year old consumer class mobo begs replacing. I think the way to replace
the southbridge chip (if that's it) is called floating point solder, or some
such. Hardware fails, and just a new kernel for your present drive will get
you up and running on a new board.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-14 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-14 16:18 [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus felix
2012-12-14 16:28 ` Michael Mol
2012-12-14 16:33 ` felix
2012-12-14 16:47 ` Florian Philipp
2012-12-14 17:22 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-12-14 17:35 ` felix
2012-12-14 18:16 ` Bruce Hill
2012-12-14 18:24 ` felix
2012-12-14 18:34 ` Bruce Hill
2012-12-14 18:43 ` felix
2012-12-14 18:48 ` Michael Mol
2012-12-14 18:52 ` Bruce Hill [this message]
2012-12-16 1:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2012-12-14 18:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-12-14 19:51 ` [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus -- REBOOT OK THIS A.M felix
2012-12-14 20:00 ` Michael Mol
2012-12-14 21:19 ` Dale
2012-12-14 22:03 ` felix
2012-12-17 22:10 ` Robert Walker
2012-12-18 4:41 ` felix
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