I am not sure but I *think* it has to do with the
chipset on the SOYO SY-5EH5 motherboard,
I have heard that those sony motherboards are weird,
so it might be that something in the chipset is not
allowing Linux to grab onto the hardware,
I guess like the other guy said you could test out
the thing running in runlevel 3 uhh, I can't remember
what he said for grub but in lilo boot type linux 3
and it should get you into runlevel 3 which is text only.
I hope this has helped some.
On Tuesday 30 January 2001 08:57 pm, so spoke Jim Dawson:
> I have installed Mandrake 7.2 on my second PC several times
> over the past few weeks using various configurations and it
> always crashes hard within a few minutes of use. After a
> few minutes the vertical edges of windows become distorted
> (slightly 'wavy') shortly after that the whole machine
> hangs, requiring a hard reset. (No programs respond, CTRL-
> ALT-BACKSPACE doesn't kill X, Oddly I *can* move the mouse
> pointer but it doesn't do anything...) It makes *Windows*
> look like a paragon of stability!
>
> I have installed Mandrake 7.2 using the same CDs on another
> computer with similar hardware. It runs great on the other
> computer.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I might try to
> get this working?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Here's a quick rundown of the hardware:
> * SOYO SY-5EH5 motherboard
> * AMD K6/2 350MHz processor
> * 1x128MB 100ns SDRAM DIMM
> * EIDE CD-ROM (Secondary Master)
> * Sony CD-R (Secondary Slave)
> * Maxtor 15GB EIDE (Primary Master)
> * Matrox Mystique PCI 4MB video
> * Sony 200sx monitor
> * Kingston (DEC 21041 based) 10Mbps Ethernet card
> * Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 Plug & Play
> * Seagate/Connor QIC-3020 TR3 floppy-based tape drive
> * Connor 2MB tape drive controller (floppy-based)
> * 2x USB ports (VIA chipset, on motherboard)
> * Epson Color Stylus 860 printer (hooked up via USB)
> * Standard Serial/Parallel ports.
> * Supra 33.6 external modem (COM1)
> * 1.44MB floppy
> * generic 104 key Keyboard
> * MS Intelimouse (wheel) ps/2 bus
