Am Montag, den 29.11.2004, 22:13 -0600 schrieb Hank Barta: > I've been trying to install some flavor of Debian AMD-64 to a system I > upgraded last night with little success. > Hardware > Abit AV8 with VIA K8T800 Pro/ VT8237 chipset > SATA/RAID (not in use yet) > VT8237 IDE > Audio (AC-97?) > 3400+ processor > 512MB/1GM RAM > (recycled hardware) > Some year+ old Seagate ATA drive - 130GB > Ancient #9 video card (S3968) > Ancient Tulip Ethernet card > IDE CDROM burner > > Trying any of the ISOs that looked like they made sense (anything save > the netboot) the system was horribly unstable. It ranged from > rebooting instantly when hitting <return> from the boot prompt to > locking up while loading modules from the CD or partitioning and > formatting the hard drive.
Hmm -- to me this doesn't sound like an debian-amd64-related problem. Have you tried another memory module. Or try clocking your memory slower. I've expierenced similar errors on an ia32-machine. Clocking down the memory "solved" the problem. [...]
