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PostPosted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 7:18 pm 
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Hi,
My current frontend has been having a few problems booting lately (it gets stuck on the BIOS Logos) so I think it might be time to replace the guts of it.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a good LinHES friendly motherboard?

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 2:18 am 
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turpie wrote:
Hi,
My current frontend has been having a few problems booting lately (it gets stuck on the BIOS Logos) so I think it might be time to replace the guts of it.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a good LinHES friendly motherboard?


The Devil is in the details which you haven't provided... CPU = ? RAM = ?

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 5:28 pm 
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graysky wrote:
The Devil is in the details which you haven't provided... CPU = ? RAM = ?


Fair point. I figured the motherboard was the most likely item to have compatibility problems, so I would choose that first and the rest would simply be down to size and speed.

So my current motherboard is an ASUS M2NPV-VM with an AM2 socket Athlon 64 X2 3800+ and 1GB of DDR2 RAM.
http://www.asus.com.au/Motherboards/AMD_AM2/M2NPVVM/

Can you still get motherboards that support AM2 sockets? Should I bother trying with a CPU so old? I was assuming it wasn't even an option.

I dont really care whether its AMD or Intel, I would prefer inexpensive and cool running though.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 6:01 pm 
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Price it out and see... I'm guessing not. Maybe you should focus your attention down on figuring out why it is freezing on boot up. Once it is booted, combing through your logs may reveal something hardware related.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 10:24 pm 
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I suppose you could start down the upgrade landslide and just build another computer or you could spend $59 at newegg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 74&Tpk=am2
since your system is faster than mine I can't help but be jealous.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 3:18 pm 
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If you can get it working again, that board can take a am3 cpu, even a quad core. Click on the cpu tab on the link that you provided. Probably takes a bios upgrade to do it.


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 7:35 pm 
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Thanks for the advice guys.

I should also provide details of my actual problem. I use MythWelcome and co to have my mythbox automatically start up and shutdown to record stuff, however recently it has been getting stuck at the bios boot logo. We've been pretty busy lately so sometimes we haven't looked at the mythbox for a couple of days. This means that we've been missing recordings while the machine is "stuck". So far I have been able to get it going again by simply switching it off and on again, but I don't know how long that will work and it doesn't solve the problem of lost recordings.
This machine has done a lot of work over many years so I figure something is at the end of its life. The tricky part will be to determine which component is the one that's having problems.

Any hints?

Matt,
I like that term "upgrade landslide", its kind of what I'm expecting.

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