Misery loves company, as the saying goes, and nowhere is that more evident than on the Linux blogs.Case in point: Linux Planet’s Carla Schroder recently told a woeful tale about her attempt to upgrade the CPU on her ECS motherboard, and it has inspired a vast outpouring of sympathy from geeks far and wide.”My nice new Phenom X3 CPU worked beautifully at first,” Schroder wrote. “The whole system was more stable, and I could do things in Audacity that I couldn’t before, like 32/96 recording. But the good times did not last, and after a couple weeks of happiness it croaked.”After a round of all the “usual tedious troubleshooting,” it became clear that the motherboard had “kicked the bucket,” she recounted.While awaiting ECS’ verdict on the toasted equipment, Schroder began shopping for a new motherboard, reasoning that she could always use a second one.”Have you shopped for motherboards recently? It is a minefield. A tarpit. A bramble thicket,” she wrote. Compatibility issues — with RAM, CPU and power supplies — plagued Schroder, as did questions of which sound and video chipsets were appropriate for use with Linux.So profound was the confusion, in fact, that Schroder still hadn’t made a purchase… Read full this story
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