Rony wrote: Hi, firstly could you edit out the OP's (original poster) email address from your reply. 102 GGC will have a 102 GGC driver cd. Look under the hood using 'lshw' to check your chipsets. If you don't have the package, yum it or apt-get it. What does your mobo box say? When did you buy the mobo? As a rule, I always give all the original packing boxes and CDs to my clients for all items.
I am using Windows XP SP2 presently and have not yet installed Linux.Amtrying to acquire Mandriva 2007 from Mohan or Mehul.I bought the PC hardly 2 months ago.I don't have the mobo box.but i have the Intel Express Installer Driver CD and there's documentation on it full of what features their various mobo's support and how to install and reset CMOS ......
101 GGC uses DDR RAM. 102 GGC and 965 RYCK use DDR2.
that means i cannot use my present RAM if I am not mistaken as to the meaning of what those specifications in the links you gave say. Do you think the reseller will cut me some slack coz it was his mistake?
I tried Sabayon on a couple of 102GGC boards. Works perfectly, including the
5.1 surround sound. I just had to change from 2 speaker mode to 5.1 in kmix.
Mine is 101GGC and since i have absolutely NO experience with Linux,i would like to get a normal distro first and gain some knowledge before experimenting.sorry :-(
Regards Easwar
C.E. Hariharan wrote:
that means i cannot use my present RAM if I am not mistaken as to the meaning of what those specifications in the links you gave say. Do you think the reseller will cut me some slack coz it was his mistake?
What did you ask for? You could have asked others before finalazing your config. 101 GGC is old technology now so I doubt he will take it back. Anyway you can always try. Otherwise, it is a good board and uses ATI Radeon chipsets so graphics is good. In your bois you can share more RAM for better graphics. You are better off than the older 845 chipsets and pin processors. Your processor is pinless and board supports SATA HDDs.
Mine is 101GGC and since i have absolutely NO experience with Linux,i would like to get a normal distro first and gain some knowledge before experimenting.sorry :-(
Use Ubuntu 6.10 as it boots live and then gives an 'install' icon on the live desktop itself. Use your last windows partition eg. F: or E: When you come to the disk setup part, choose 'Manual Install'. Delete your last partition so that it converts into Free space. From that total free space, subtract 2 GB and create a new partition of that subtracted size. Use Ext3 or Reizerfs as your partition type (file system). Label it as a slash '/'. Convert the balance free space into a swap partition. Then let the installation proceed further. Don't touch partition 1 as it is your C: drive.
Regards,
Rony.
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