[mythtv-users] OT: dead motherboard or video card?

Gabe Rubin gaberubin at gmail.com
Wed Jun 16 18:48:06 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Calvin Dodge <caldodge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > As it happens, I have a PCI sound card as well. Alsamixer doesn't find
>> > it, so I would suspect the entire PCI bus is not working properly and a
>> > mobo replacement is going to be required. Crap.
>> >
>> Installing the new mobo is easy.  Just unscrew the old one and put the
>> new one in.  The whole project should take you no more then 2 hours to
>> complete and most likely you will not need to upgrade much, if
>> anything, driver side.
>>
>
> Don't forget to have some good thermal paste on hand, since you'll need to
> apply a layer between heat sink and CPU.

Good point.  However, depending on which CPU yoy buy (packaged v. OEM)
it may come with a thermal paste sticker.  Obviously, if you are not
replacing the CPU, you need to get this.  It should add a total of $3
to your cost of purchase, and probably smart to have around anyways.


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