OpenBSD and Winblows 2000 would both install on the box that I had recently. I read the motherboard book and in small print on one page it said 1 stick of DDR400. So I called the company and they cross shipped me two sticks of DDR366 and Linux went in fine.
So yes, I would say different OSes will work differently if you have memory problems. Most of the time I have more problems with winblows and bad ram, but sometimes it just works the other way around... Dunno why. Shannon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karthik Poobalasubramanian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 11:38 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] distribution on my box > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >General mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
