One very simple suggestion that seems to fix these problems 90% of the time. BAD RAM!!!
I bought a computer from a manufacturer who will go unnamed and had these same sorts of problems and it turns out that the motherboard (with AMD XP2600) would only support 1 stick of DDR400 RAM and not two. They had two in there (1 GB) and RH 8.0 would not install. Froze with a kernel panic. Honestly more times than not, if you have problems like this, look at memory FIRST, and then look at other things. This comes from 5+ years of learning that if it is a flaky system, it is probably mem. Shannon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karthik Poobalasubramanian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 8:13 PM Subject: [brlug-general] distribution on my box > Hi all, > i am trying to get a linux distribution on a computer i bought recently. > the hardware config is > CPU - AMD athlonXP 2000+ > RAM - 256(shared with VGA) god know what type it is probably PC 133 > 40 gb hdd > Trident blade 3D (8mb shared ) > > I have disabled the ac97 and added a old creative vibra 128 > Logitech optical scroll mouse and a no name "made in china" keyboard > 17" E70 viewsonic monitor. > > I have tried installing > redhat 7.3 to 9.0 > Mandrake 8.0 to 9.1 including rc2 > but in all these installation half way through the system freezes. I though > the problem would be with the VGA driver and tried installing these > distributions in text mode. evern then i get "kernel panic" errors and the > installation exits. mandrake 9.1 rc2 and 9.1 installed okay when i install > minimum components in text mode. Even after that the system still gives > problems when running KDE or Gnome. What happens is the system just quits > what ever i am doing and exits to the login screen. > > For now i have installed Debian 3.0. I got the minimal installation CD down > and did a network install. I have configured network and running webserver > and sshd. But i am not able to configure the mouse and the xserver. i went > through xf86config but could not configure it. > The kernel ver in Debian 3.0 is 2.2.20. > Can someone suggest direction to proceed? right now my purpose is being > served(basically need the webserver and run some perl scripts) but i would > very much like to get the xserver up and running. any help would be great. > > cheers, > karthik > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
