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Re: New motherboard (and processor)



On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 homega@vlc.servicom.es wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I recently had the motherboard changed in my machine.  There's nothing I've
> changed in Debian since, and it seems it had no problems with the change. 
> Just one though, Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't work properly.  It starts the shutting
> down process down to the last line, but when it comes to actually rebooting
> the system, the screen stays blank and it doesn't reboot (so, I have to
> resort to the reset button).  Instead, windows95 restarting works fine.
> Any idea of why this might be?  May be anything I have to change in the
> BIOS?

You haven't gone from an AT board to ATX have you? If you have, its a
simple matter of recompiling the kernel with ATX support.

>  Also, I got hold of an Intel MMX processor (I currently have a
> P-120), and am wondering if I have to tell Debian somehow about the change,
> or will it be just like with the m'board.

Shouldn't matter. Mine didn't complain.


                       Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)

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