RoyD wrote:After lots of help from Mageia, I finally found my PC hardware has been causing all my problems . Mother board is dying - move the power supply lead and it reboots.
Sounds like a capacitors issue on your current MB. They can be replaced by the skilled person. It's also possible that your power supply is faulty. That can easily be checked if you connected another one.
RoyD wrote:I want to to build a PC middle of the road that fits in with Mageia 5, KDE and soon Mageia 6. No Gaming. Should I go Intel or AMD for processing , amd or nvida for graphics. I will do word processing, low end graphics, email etc. Is there any thing I should not go for? I would put these bits into a large tower with backups drive and an hdmi screen. Any suggestion welcomed.
Your use case sounds similar to mine if I don't count web development. I bought
Asus B85 which offered a lot for that money almost three years ago. It has an Intel Celeron G1840T 2,5 GHz (Haswell) processor as I hate noisy fans and built-in graphic which works fine on
2560 x 1440 monitor with DP and 2x4GB of RAM.
I'm happy with the current setup tough many times during web development I do miss some screen space so I might add another monitor somewhere in the future
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I mounted that in an old case I had together with 180GB SSD from previous PC. When I first powered it up I just turned off UEFI and it just booted fine despite very severe HW change
. Yeah, Mageia is that flexible. I always upgraded inline without any serious issues from Mandriva 2008 times IIRC on the previous PC. I did a fresh install when I decided to go 64 bit tough. Sometimes in the future I'll convert to UEFI too.