[Gllug] Upgrading a PC in situ

[John Winters]

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 16:22 +0100, Rich Walker wrote:
> John Winters <john at sinodun.org.uk> writes:
> 
> [snip]
> >
> > I am proposing simply to open up, remove peripherals, remove m/b,
> > install new m/b, re-connect and close the box.  Is there anything else
> > I'm likely to need to do?  Additional case fans perhaps?  The box is
> > fairly empty with just a single HDD and an oldish video card (not
> > powerful enough to need a fan).
> 
> Take a backup.
> 
> Seriously.

Thanks for the heads up.  I last did a full mondo backup of this machine
a week ago, and it carries no user data (/home nfs mounted from my
server), but you're quite right.  I had thought of it - honest.  :-)

Cheers,
John

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