Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:50:07
Message-Id: CA+czFiCXHgWgBCcfWd7Y19XgXoxDoHg_ih7ubkeoeGcPsdvXiQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus by felix@crowfix.com
1 On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:43 PM, <felix@×××××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:34:49PM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote:
3 >
4 >> Boot with SystemRescueCd and you can't get to a prompt?
5 >
6 > Currently can't even boot -- it hangs wit a blank screen at the point grub or the rescue DVD would take over.
7 >
8 >> Yes, your southbridge chipset could just happened to have failed at the same
9 >> time; or it failed on the reboot; or USB and SATA are both on the southbridge
10 >> that failed so you lost both, basically.
11 >
12 > Then my natural naive question is, can this be readily replaced, or is it soldered in and/or obsolete? It is about 8 years old.
13
14 Almost certainly no. Not unless you take the part numbers in question
15 and hit ebay.
16
17 --
18 :wq