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#1 2012-06-16 00:48:59

mastis
ArchBanger
From: Finland
Registered: 2011-10-02
Posts: 126

New motherboard, new system?

My motherboard is broken and i'm getting a new one from guarantee. I'm getting Asrock z-68 instead of Asus what i had before because they aren't selling that model anymore. Can i use my old system or do i have to re-install AB?

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#2 2012-06-16 06:13:04

pablokal
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From: Nijmegen, Holland
Registered: 2010-10-12
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Re: New motherboard, new system?

It depends on what kind of Asus board you had and what specific configurations you have made.
The z68 seems to have some problems: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=120571

What I would do first is run a live AB cd; if that works OK, then  I would  boot into the terminal and let the kernel rebuild itself by reinstalling:

#pacman -S linux

If you get an startx problem you can try to reconfigure the video card.
With the liveCD you also can backup all your personal and desktop config files to an external hard drive for instance.

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#3 2012-06-16 08:17:56

mastis
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From: Finland
Registered: 2011-10-02
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Re: New motherboard, new system?

Thanks.

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#4 2012-06-17 08:28:56

Kruppt
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From: Blue Ridge Mountains, NC
Registered: 2010-12-20
Posts: 299

Re: New motherboard, new system?

mastis wrote:

My motherboard is broken and i'm getting a new one from guarantee. I'm getting Asrock z-68 instead of Asus what i had before because they aren't selling that model anymore. Can i use my old system or do i have to re-install AB?

Once you have your new mother board installed, boot into LiveCD, chroot into your archbang partition, remove drivers related to old hardware (Video), edit files that relate to the older hardware, (ex. rc.conf if you have NIC card modules set there, /etc/udev/rules.d/10-network.rules, /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d files you may have modified, /etc/modules.d files and etc. If you have not modified any of these type files you probably don't need to worry about this aspect. Install appropriate drivers for video, wireless, etc., and lastly run "mkinitcpio -p linux" in root shell from the chrooted environment.

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#5 2012-06-17 10:21:20

Mr Green
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Registered: 2010-11-07
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Re: New motherboard, new system?

Would selecting fallback not do the trick?

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#6 2012-06-17 18:48:38

Kruppt
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From: Blue Ridge Mountains, NC
Registered: 2010-12-20
Posts: 299

Re: New motherboard, new system?

Mr Green wrote:

Would selecting fallback not do the trick?

Yes it certainly would, didn't think of it in the moment.

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#7 2012-06-17 19:02:37

mike4ca
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From: Iowa, USA
Registered: 2011-10-17
Posts: 434

Re: New motherboard, new system?

When I got my latest laptop, I just pulled the hard drive from the old one and put it in the new and booted up.  No problem.  Of course I was not running any proprietary drivers.  Never know until you try.  If it does not work, then it looks like there are plenty of ways to work through it.

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