Hi all,
I have following this list for some 8 or 9 months now and have obtained a
lot of useful advice and tips. I'm now operating what is close to becoming a
boat anchor. I have an AMD K6-2 running at 420 MHz in an ASUS P5A
motherboard. Most everything else is standard, SB16, Nvidia TNT2, 160MB Ram,
two 20 Gig Maxtor drives, Ricoh CD-RW and generic CD-reader. I have been
fighting a weird problem the last couple of weeks. I loaded MD 8.2 and
really liked it, but could not get a printer installed. Whenever I ran
PrinterDrake, it asked me for Disc 1 and tried to install something. My
computer would freeze solid during install, responding only to the reset
button. I tried a fresh reinstall of MD 8.2. Same. Tried a fresh install
of 8.1. Froze during the install. Civileme suggested a bad CD. I burned a
new one. Same. I tried installing from a different CD-drive. Same. I
pulled my soundcard and every other "non-essential" card and disk drive. I
was able to reinstall MD 8.2. I ran PrinterDrake. It wanted to install some
package again (CUPS and Foomatic, I believe). Out of frustration, I just hit
"cancel" and you guessed it, it worked! I now have a printer. I thought I
was home free. Remember the soundcard I pulled? I reinstalled the card and
tried to run "soundcfg". Not there. I ran software manager. Froze. Solid.
At this point, I'm at a loss, other than tying it to a boat. Any
suggestions? Has anyone had good experiences with an ECS K7S5A motherboard?
Thanks for bearing with my rantings and ramblings. Even if I don't figure it
out... I feel better.
Linus
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