sorry to hear about your motherboard. If it will still work depends on whether there were any traces cut on the outside, or inside the printed circuit board, or if the chipping created any shorts between layers. Most boards have 8 to ten layers inside, so its hard to tell from the outside.
If the damage is no more than a millimetre deep, then it probably did not touch any traces, as they most often stay away from the edge of the board. So Its quite possible that the damage is only cosmetic. When powering up the board be prepared to pull the plug, and watch the damaged corner carefully for smoke or sparks. Just power up for a second or so, then feel if the corner has got hot. If it has not you can try longer. On 26 okt, 03:53, Bird_Lover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well I tried gOS on my system today. I think it will work fine if I > get more memory. My current configuration is just 128MB. My live CD > took me as far as seeing the pretty green gOS wallpaper and my mouse > cursor. At that point I got an error about gnome and then my system > just appeared to hang. I assume that if I had more memory, I would > have gotten further. Overall the screen looked good and clear. I'm > excited, but at the same time while trying gOS today I scuffed one of > the corners on my mobo. It kind of chipped off and looks bad. Now I > don't know if the mobo will work anymore or not. :-( It is on the > extreme corner, and I'm hoping it won't make a difference. However > there are two dots of solder right next to the damaged spot. Again > what a disappointment. None of this would have happened if some guy at > the local computer store hadn't sold me a cheap case. I was having > sooooo much trouble with it. It's thin like a pop can. It's the worst > case I've seen. > > On Oct 12, 3:04 pm, mahjongg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you have enough RAM (512 MB should be plenty, about 320MB (256+64) > > Seems to be minimum) there shouldn't be any problem at all. Linux is > > very good at supporting older hardware. All hardware, including most > > printers etc, will work "out of the box". > > > Only weak spot is Wireless adapters. For some there isn't a driver at > > all available, for others the driver is written by the Linux > > community, without much help (if any) from the manufacturer, and an > > additional problem is that many chip-sets need to have firmware > > uploaded to them to work, and the firmware is also proprietary, so > > cannot legally be copied. For these reasons, sometimes the only way to > > get Wireless to work is by simply using the windows drivers with an > > "interface program" called a "wrapper" (ndiswrapper for WifI, other > > wrappers also exist for other special hardware). The wrapper solution > > sometimes doesn't work seamlessly with the network manager, providing > > no signal strength details or doesn't support power down recovery. > > > Some printers also need proprietary drivers, but Epson, HP and Brother > > drivers are mostly covered, except perhaps the very latest models. > > > So yes, running the Live_CD is a very good indicator that everything > > will work, that is what it was designed to do. > > You might not see al the resolutions your hardware can support, but > > you can add a program to the menu's to re-configure the screen and > > video card later, by using the menu editor. > > > Only reason I can think of why the live_CD would work, and you cannot > > install, is when you have too little RAM, as running the installer > > requires more RAM than simply running the CD. But if you have that > > little RAM, even when it wasn't a problem to install gOS it would be > > running several applications at the same time. > > > The main reason more than 256MB is required lies with GNOME, which is > > very memory hungry. This year Good OS will also release other versions > > of gOS gadgets, that use less power hungry Window managers, like > > Enlightenment and XFCE. I have also heard rumours that they are > > working on specific versions that fully support specific netbooks, > > like the EEE PC, and are optimised to run on each system. > > > On 12 okt, 08:07, Bird_Lover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If I can run the live CD, is that a good indicator that gOS 3.0 will > > > install and run on my low powered 500mhz system?- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
