[ozjam1]

hi,

I'm soon going to updrade my mobo, cpu and ram. At the moment I have an oldish AOpen mobo with a PIII 550Mhz cpu, and will be upgrading to an Asus A7V333-X with an Athlon XP 2001+. Is there anything I should take into account - ie. will Mandrake 9 boot up ok or will I need to update it so it has drivers for the mobo or something? I know that I will have to for windows XP (I'm dual-booting), but I wasn't sure if it was similar with Mandrake.

Thanks
Jamie

[lynch]

There are several tedious methods for doing this in windows and Linux but when you upgrade the motherboard and the CPU your basically building a new PC.And with any new build,you want a fresh copy of the OS(s) as it is actually easier to have the OS optimized for the new system by doing fresh installs.I would save any data that you need and perform a fresh install of both OSs.XP first,then MDK.
HTH
lynch

[ozjam1]

thanks,

I'll try that when I finally get my CPU