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Re: mobo and cpu upgrade...sweet linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Wed Oct 28 11:37:07 1998
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 07:33:29 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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Patrick O'Neil wrote:
>
> Last night I replaced my p166MMX (oc'd to 188) and mobo
> with an Abit BH6 with a Celery 300a (oc'd, for now, to
> 338 MHz). As I was told, upon that first startup with
> the new hardware, linux did not care and came up flawlessly.
>
> Win98 and OS/2, on the other hand, couldn't take it. It
> took a while to get Win98 to accept the new reality (and
> it required about 6 "Restart your computer for changes to
> take affect" idiocies).
Over here I have my hard drives on those plug in trays with
built in cooling fans. With Linux, you can yank one and put
it in another machine (all use the same motherboard type, etc),
and all runs well. Just the one reboot.
Windows 95, however, goes nuts if you do this, in spite of the
IRQ etc settings being the same. It can actually TELL that there
is something fishy in tuperary! Last time I tried it, I got to
reboot 30 times. Needless to say, we don't move that drive
around any more.
The aggravating part is that it detects one difference, then
reboots. Then it finds the next change, reboots. Ad nauseam.
With Linux, all is detected on the first boot, at once, and is
the end of the problem. This is absolutely first class. :-)
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