Topic: Hardware Upgrade

[jameswilson]

Hi all, i have searched but cant find a diffinitive answer.
I currently have a fantasic 71 sme with various contribs and vmware running great, but its a 2800+ athlon and its starting to struggle. I have a spare athlon 4800x2 thayt i would like to replace it with.
I have too much data to use the builtin backup utility so am currently using dar2 backup (again excellent) to external usb drives.

1. What im wondering is, can i just swap the mobo and processor and all will sort out? im assuming not

2. if i restore will i love the vmware stuff as well as all the other contribs i have (also using a phpbb site)

Thanks very much guys

[bpivk]

1. What im wondering is, can i just swap the mobo and processor and all will sort out? im assuming not

You asume wrong. Windows crashes when you change motherboard or procesor. Linux just need a few minutes to adjust it's settings. I have changed my server just by unpluging disks from 300mhz computer and pluging it into 1700 mhz. The only thing i needed to do was to configure the new NIC's.

I never had any problems with changing hardware this way. The only problem i had happened when i put some sort of unsuported hardware in my server.

[jameswilson]

really wow!!
Im impressed then, fortunatly i have a raid 1 mirror at the mo, but would prefer to size this up, i have 2 8 320 gig drives to use for this purpose, can i put one of my 80 gigs (current drive) in and a 320 and upsize it this way or would i be better cloning the disk?

[bpivk]

Well i think that we have another topic about adding disks. Use the search function. I think that we also have some howto's about disks lurking somewhere on this forum.

And yes i was also impressed when my friend told me about linux and hardware. I had problems with adding too much ram on windows and linux doesn't even get a hickup.