Replacing Motherboards...

[bruce]

I envision that we'll be looking to replace the entire mobo
(mem/cpu/hdrive). given that these are compaq systems, i extpect that the
ps/fans will more than drive any board we put in. guess my real question is
can we find cheap enough boards that will fit the dimensions of the
chasis....

i'm not sure what the boards are that are currently in the systems.. given
the decrease in the price of the boards/mem/hdrives.. we should be ok..
hopefully!!

-bruce


-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Scot L. Harris
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 11:36 AM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Replacing Motherboards...


On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 11:24 -0700, bruce wrote:

> We've got a few older 800/900MHz Compaq DL360 1U servers, and we're
looking
> at replacing/upgrading the motherboard/mem with something along the lines
of
> the 1.8/2.6GHz boards.. Has anyone any experience doing this.. Any
pointers,
> etc...

If you mean pulling the motherboard and replacing it while leaving the
harddrive, yes.  The caveat is that you will need to keep the same
processor type or you will need to install the kernel for the processor
you are moving to.  In general if you stay in the same family this
should be very painless.

I swapped harddrives in a couple of systems and was very surprised that
the system recognized the changed hardware, USB chip set, network chip
set, etc. and came up on the new motherboard just fine.

As always make backups first just in case.



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