I’m upgrading my system from am2 to am3+(motherboard, cpu, memory). Do I need to reinstall suse? Is there is shorter way? reinstall the motherboard drivers, need help here. I also need to know if this am3 motherboard is supported.
MSI Computer Corp. Motherboard North Bridge AMD 970 & South Bridge AMD SB950 Chipset ATX DDR3 800 AMD AM3+ Motherboards (970A-G46)
On 2013-09-09 22:46, lord valarian wrote:
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> I’m upgrading my system from am2 to am3+(motherboard, cpu, memory). Do I
> need to reinstall suse? Is there is shorter way? reinstall the
> motherboard drivers, need help here. I also need to know if this am3
> motherboard is supported.
Just boot in text mode, it will probably work. Then reconfigure network
card, sound, and video. If if it does not boot, try failsafe.
There are no motherboard drivers.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
The sockets are supported, the AM3+ cpus too. My 2 cents? Put the HDD in the new machine, try to boot. When I moved from an AMD X2 6000+ to an AMD Phenom X6 that’s exactly what I did. Built the new stuff in the machine, then connected the disks in the same order (i.e. what was on SATA-1 on the old motherboard also on SATA-1 on the new one.). Booted, and all was well. Took ~2 hours, incl. some testing.
>There are no motherboard drivers.
Reconfigure the network? how? Just delete the old network info? What about other systems?
I don’t understand. No motherboard drivers? Can you explain?
On 09/10/2013 01:36 PM, lord valarian wrote:
> I don’t understand. No motherboard drivers? Can you explain?
All that stuff is included in the kernel. When it initially loads, it looks at
the hardware and configures what you have, and any special handling that is
needed. Anything that runs in user mode, which is almost everything else, need
not be aware of what is happening inside.
On 2013-09-10 20:36, lord valarian wrote:
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>> There are no motherboard drivers.
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> Reconfigure the network? how?
Yast, network device, delete old device, add new device. The network
configuration should be the same.
> What about other systems?
Like what?
> I don’t understand. No motherboard drivers? Can you explain?
This is not Windows, you don’t have to install motherboard drivers. As
simple as that, no drivers, plug and play 
The only drivers in Linux you have to worry are video drivers, and
sometimes wifi hardware or sound hardware. And 80% of the time you need
do nothing.
Don’t worry, this is piece of cake. If you have problems later, we’ll
handle them as they come.
You would have a big problem changing from 64 bit hardware to 32 bit
hardware - but that change would be rare indeed nowdays. And the change
on the other direction works (with not the full resources of the
hardware, but it works).
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)