shannon
i had the same problem when i was building a Windows machine for my friend.
my question here is, i am also running windows on the same machine. but the
windows is running fine (*cough*) and the installation was smooth so if the
ram is bad wouldn't it cause some problem on windows too?
karthik
At 10:19 PM 4/14/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>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
> >
> >
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