PIII to PIV upgrade

Justin Bennett Justin.Bennett at dynabrade.com
Thu Nov 14 13:38:05 EST 2002


Yeah I may do the HW upgrade then bring it up to RH 8.0. I was wondering
If I was going to get screwed becuase of diffrent MB chipsets, IRQs, ect.

Justin



John Seth said:
> I haven't had any problems on a PIV with RH, although I've experience
> numerous problems with almost any distro I've used if I swapped
> Motherboards and CPU's, but kept the same hard drives and hardware...
> Could be just me though...
>
> If you're switching, but also doing an OS upgrade, it shouldn't be a
> problem.
>
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> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Justin Bennett wrote:
>
>>
>> Anyone have any problems with PIII to PIV upgrades? I'm running Redhat
>> 7.2 with kernel:
>>
>> Linux cheetah.dynabrade.com 2.4.18-17.7.xsmp #1 SMP Tue Oct 8 12:37:04
>> EDT 2002
>> i686 unknown
>>
>> The most up2date kernel from redhat. I want to swap the board from
>> dual PIII 700s on a tyan tiger board to Dual 1.8 PIV Xeons on a
>> supermicro board. If I just swap the board, RAM, CPUs, and powersupply
>> (PIvs have their own of course). The kernel should boot ok on PIVs
>> right? Has anyone tried?
>>
>> Justin
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Network Administrator
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>> 716-631-0100 ext 215
>>
>>
>
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