Motherboard upgrade, question about compatibility with existing hard drives etc.

Hi, I currently have an K8N Neo2 Platinum socket 939 board, 2 gig of OCZ Platinum PC3200 DDR400 RAM, a Lian Li V1000 ATX case, an AMD Athlon 64 3000 processor, 2 Sata 1 hard drives and a TAGAN TG380-U01 380W power supply. All this stuff is from around 2005.
I'm thinking of upgrading my board to a MSI 870A-G54. Obviously I'll need new memory and a new processor, but my question is this - will I still be able to use the Lian Li case, and the Sata 1 hard drives/power supply with the above board? Also, does it have onboard graphics or will I need a dedicated video card?
Thanks,
Chris

Quote from: russianpolecat on 05-May-11, 07:19:26
Hi, I currently have an K8N Neo2 Platinum socket 939 board, 2 gig of OCZ Platinum PC3200 DDR400 RAM, a Lian Li V1000 ATX case, an AMD Athlon 64 3000 processor, 2 Sata 1 hard drives and a TAGAN TG380-U01 380W power supply. All this stuff is from around 2005.
I'm thinking of upgrading my board to a MSI 870A-G54. Obviously I'll need new memory and a new processor, but my question is this - will I still be able to use the Lian Li case, and the Sata 1 hard drives/power supply with the above board? Also, does it have onboard graphics or will I need a dedicated video card?
Thanks,
Chris
Case, HDD - Yes
Onboard graphics - No
PSU, maybe but probably not. Something with more power would probably be wise to get. What PSU you get would depend on the CPU & graphics card you get.

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I'm starting to think I might not have made myself clear at the beginning (my english might not be that good, sorry for that ;-))
First of all, thanks for all your advice, I really appreciate it.
secondly, I think I need to make something clear: I don't plan on creating a RAID0 with my internal drive or anything like that. I just want to put two 1TB drives (both external!) together because I will have two of them to spare when I get my imac (as they are currently built into my PC) and I need at least a 2TB drive as a time machine backup drive.
So my choices are: Buying a new 2TB drive and doing nothing with my current 1TB drives or just putting the 1TB drives together in RAID0 and using them for backup.
Also, as I said before, it doesn't really matter if my RAID0 fails, as it is only my backup drive (so I still have everything I need from there on my actual iMac). So if my RAID0 fails, I just replace it with a single 2TB drive (hopefully they will be cheap by then) and let time machine create a new backup on the new drive.
Anyway, I think I see the problems with RAID0 now and when I get my imac I will certainly think about what to use as a time machine backup drive. Not sure what I will do though. But I think I go for the RAID0 until one of my 1TB drives fail and get a 2TB drive then and use that from then on.
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(BTW, @BoyHowdieDoo: I'm also not doing it for the performance improvement or anything, I don't really care about that since it's only a time machine backup drive)
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Trouble upgrading to mountain loin after upgrading mac book pro with new hard drive and adding 8 megs ram

every time after I have upgraded my macbook pro I am unable to upgrade to mountion lion , it aways will either go blank and I have to start fresh from cd system going all the way till I get to last upgrade and then loss everything. any help or what is happening
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you are correct, I have had my mac at geek squad to correct this problem and they could not find the fix other thanit was a hard drive problem and they replaced the hard drive and that did not fix the problem, they said it could be the speed of the HD I used as a replacement ,which was 7200,o the nw one is 5800 yet I still or they could not upgrade . they were used a jump drive and they tried to down load from itunes no luck. I started out wth the install disk and stepped up ,what could be wrong?
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Are the LaCie external 500GB hard drives actually 2 hard drives inside the case or just 1? Are they good?
I read a review that the larger LaCie external hard drives often fail and are not as reliable as the samller ones (like 300GB). Is this true?
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Hi Tim,
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Hi,
I have a large iTunes library on my laptop (+140GB). My hard drive is running out of space. I am planning on backing up my music and everything in iTunes to a backup 2TB external hard drive. I know how to do this but I like to tweek it a little: I want to be able to back up all my files to the external drive AND then delete some of the less-used songs on my internal drive. BUT i want to keep them in the external hard drive! Is this possible?
I know I am probably not clear, so please let me know.
Thanks,

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AxelRWolfe wrote:
Could I use Parallels on my Mac instead of Boot Camp and install Windows XP?
Yes.
Could Parallels Desktop 4 work with my computer?
Verify that you machine meets the below requirements:
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operating systems in virtual machines, an Intel Core 2 or later processor is required.
Minimum 1 GB of memory, 2 GB of memory is recommended.
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Please see article http://kb.parallels.com/en/5653 how to enable Intel VT-x Virtualization support.
Note: Your Mac must have enough memory to run Mac OS X and your Mac applications,
plus the memory required for the virtual machine's operating system and the applications
installed in it. About 300 MB of disk space on the boot volume for the Parallels Desktop installation.
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Software Requirements
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Hello,
I have a question about functions with in-parameters. In the HR schema, I need to get the minimum salary of the job_id that is mentioned as an in-parameter.
this is what I am thinking but I dont know if it's correct or not or what should I do next!
create or replace function get_minimum_salary (i_job_id in varchar2)
return number
as
begin
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where job_id = get_minimum_salary(xy);
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EDIT
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Is it possible to add that if the i_job_id which is the in type parameter does not have a minimum salary then use the following function to register an error:
create or replace procedure insert_error (i_error_code in number,
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Thanks again
Edited by: Latvian83 on Jun 1, 2011 5:14 AM

HI
I have made little bit changes in ur code. try this
create or replace function get_minimum_salary (i_job_id in varchar2)
return number
as
v_Min_sal jobs.salary%type=0;---- Variable declaration
begin
SELECT min_salary INTO v_ min_sal
FROM jobs
where job_id = i_job_id;
RETURN v_Min_sal;
end get_minimum_salary;
Regards
Srikkanth.M

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Generally we use Oracle Snapshots for Communication, but since Oracle 9.2.0.5 do not work with Oracle 7.1.5.2.4. we are thinking about do use Oracle Interconnect for this Link.
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I have an air with 64Gb hard drive and 2Gb RAM and would like to upgrade both the HD and RAM. WHat should I buy?

I have an air with 64Gb hard drive and 2Gb RAM and would like to upgrade both the HD and RAM. WHat should I buy?

TWTexas wrote:
WHat should I buy?
compensate or purchase a new Air
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I have a Dual 2.5 GHz PowerPC G5 with 4 GB DDR SDRAM running 10.5.6.
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I want to create a 110GB partition on it without erasing the data on the HARD DRIVE.
I'm only using 47GBs of the Hard Drive now.
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brvideo wrote:
Everytime I try using DISC UTILITY, it first tells me it can't it, that I have to use some type of
special journaling, but their is only one choice in the drop down for that field. I then try again
after I get the error message, and it appears to begin making the partition.
But then it hangs, forever. 24 hours or more and never stops.
It sounds like there's something wrong with the file system on your disk.
First, *back up* your drive to an external disk. Use the Restore tab in Disk Utility, CarbonCopyCloner, SuperDuper!, or the like to make a "bootable clone" on a FireWire external drive.
Boot from the clone, then use Disk Utility on it to do a +Repair Disk+ (not permissions) on your internal HD. If that finds errors it can't fix, keep running it until it fixes all of them or can't fix any more.
In that case, you might be able to fix it with a heavy-duty 3rd-party disk repair app, like DiskWarrior. It's about $100 and it (and other similar apps) are available via Google, VersionTracker.com, MacUpdate.com, etc.
Instead of the clone, you can boot from your Leopard Install disc, and select your language when prompted. Then on the next screen, select Utilities from the Menubar, then +Disk Utility.+ Use that copy of DU to do the +Repair Disk.+
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I'm confused. Can I create a partition on an existing Hard Drive without erasing the existing data on a PowerPC, or is that functionality limited to the newer Intel machines?
Yes, you should be able to partition it, as long as there's enough contiguous space, and the file system is ok.
See item 5 or 6 as appropriate of the Time Machine -- Frequently Asked Questions post for instructions.

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