Thanks Martin. I might swap out the RAM in the first instance - the crashes and problems occur within minutes (second even) so It's not like I'll have to hang around too long to find out!
:) BTW - Nice to meet you at woollygoooong the other day. On 27/03/2009, Martin Visser <[email protected]> wrote: > > Patrick, > > 'OS Install Mode' needs to be off to see more than 256MB. My guess is that > you have dodgy RAM above the 256MB address space, which you are hiding with > the 'OS Install Mode'. Try running the memtest86+ utility from the Ubuntu > boot machine. If that shows up flawed memory, try swapping around the SIMMs > around in different slots - sometimes you can get subtle timing issues > depending on which one is seen first on the memory buses. > > > Regards, Martin > > [email protected] > > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:17 PM, elliott-brennan < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Glenn, >> >> That's the problem. It won't allow me to install without switching it on! >> >> :( >> >> The install failed frequently: >> >> Freezes for in excess of 30 minutes, >> >> Claims that it couldn't install various packages etc >> >> This was the case even though I tried both GUI and text installations and >> burnt the ISO to disc three times more. >> >> As soon as I turned on 'OS Install Mode', it was a clean install within a >> reasonable length of time. >> >> It's been suggested to me that I check out the BIOS version and consider >> updating it if necessary. If I can bring myself to spend more time on it I >> may just do that. >> >> Pity, because the machine is in excellent condition (I was given two but >> the >> second one has some wonky capacitors - slight bulging) >> >> Regards, >> >> Patrick >> >> >> >> On 27/03/2009, Glen Turner <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > elliott-brennan wrote: >> > >> >> What the hell has this been created for? >> >> >> > >> > For installing Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 on machines >> > with more the 2GB of RAM. For Linux you can leave >> > Dell's "OS Install Mode" off. >> > >> > -- >> > Glen Turner <http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/<http://www.gdt.id.au/%7Egdt/> >> > >> > >> -- >> SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ >> Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >> >> > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
