George, In the past, I've had problems with machines (esp those with Athlons) that were resolved by getting a new power supply. I was getting big disk errors, random crashing and motherboard-not-powering-up problems.
Did the new case that you bought have an PSU rated for an Athlon ? Regards, Cammy. george said: > > This is slightly OT I know so fogive me. I have a machine which was > running win2K, and I had a a problem with it so I upgraded the machine a > bit, new case, graphics card and memory and reinstalled win2k, after > the reinstall it kept hanging. Then when I tried to reboot it came up > with an error message saying a file could not be found, and it > caouldn't start windows, so I reinstalled it again and it ran OK for a > few days and then the same message different file. I have swapped the > card and removed the extra memory but the same problems. > > Anyway to the linux part. I put MD9 on it and it won't power down, the > modem won't work everytime you reboot unless you go to the configuration > panel and redo the config, and generally it's running like a wounded > rhino, the machine itself is a 1gig athlon with 1024 of ram. > > > George > > > _______________________________________________ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish -- Cameron Logie - Rushbrook IT Internet | Systems | Security Linux solutions for forward thinkers [W] http://www.rushbrookit.com/ [E] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [T] 0870 765 0620 _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
