'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean?ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. Because every PC manufacturer does things differently, and because PC internals vary from iteration to iteration, it's not always 100% certain that an operating system you install will pick up on every one of your motherboard's sensors. Yes, you do have ISA I/O ports even if you do not have any ISA slots! Do you want to scan the ISA I/O ports? (yes/NO):Do you want to probe the I2C/SMBus adapters now? (YES/no): Also: How to install Linux on an old laptop And that's it! Hopefully, your operating system will now have better control over your hardware to improve the Linux experience