Bummed!

[Lambo]

Hey everyone, Here is some drama for who ever wants to read.

A while ago I posted a thread that stated
"Windows user interested in linux".

Before I start let me preface my situatiion.

About yr back I bought a SOYO SY-K7ADA motherboard, supplied it with a simple AMD athlon processor about 1.33GHz. I bought a new processor later that year. Can't remember what the speed was, slightly higher than the one mentioned above. Anyhoo....

A few mnths ago, I come home to find that my monitor was not receiving a signal from my box. Long story short my processor was fried. I think I had my box under powered. (250watt PS) ooops! I have a new system now, it runs extremely, awesomely well.

I was trying to rebuild my old box with the Athlon 1.33Ghz, and I think the fried processor killed that SOYO board as well.

My question to whom ever makes it this far in my novel is:
Should I make a dual boot system, or buy a cheap mother board and rebuild my old box?

Also, how can you tell if a processor is bad?

Will Mandrake 9.2 work with a PII 266MHz processor?

The reason I ask is because I have an old PII mother board laying here.

Thanks!

[thePh@r@oh]

i got mandrake to work with a 133 but it was REAL slow just a warning. personally id go with rebuilding the rig. but thats just cause i like have lots of boxes...kinda like some kinda bragging rights....as far as the fried processor goes everyone that i hfried had burn marks underneath them

[nukes]

I'd rebuild it. You can pick up athlon boards fairly cheaply. There would be no need to go all out on it. Mandrake will work on any pentium class (i586) upwards. However some of the programs will run pretty slowly on that 266.
Fix that atlon box and stick Linux on it!

[washe]

Get a new board they are cheap now more for the kind of processor you have.... an as nukes said stick linux on it!!!!