Help Me mandrake only knows howto freezes


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BS"D

I installed mandrake on my new com

it specs are

P4 2.8GHZ-E(Prescot)

ASUS P4P800-VM

Seagate 160GB SATA 8mb cache ....

and it will freeze anywhere such as booting, loading gnome or kde, opening a program.... got no idea why this is happening? and i restarted about 1000 times already, i reinstalled a few 100 times....

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i dont no what happened but i reinstalled a few times the kernel woundnt load them i reinstalled a i am here i think the 2.6 kernerl would support me alot better time to get linux fixed up

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i dont no what happened, but i reinstalled a few times.  the kernel woundnt load, then i reinstalled, and i am here. i think the 2.6 kernerl would support me alot better. time to get linux fixed up

(The above quote has added punctuation, and one word modified in italics to show how I interpreted the run-on sentence. The bold[/u] emphasis is mine.)

It sounds to me like you might have a hardware issue. If so, there is no way to "fix" Linux to get around a hardware issue.

Did you perform a memtest? Have you tried removing or swapping other hardware?

Saying "it worked in Windows" doesn't help, as Linux drives the hardware differently. I have seen memory that seems fine in Windows fail the memtest86 program, and Linux would not run on it. To me, this is not a limitation of Linux. It is a Windows problem. The user of the above RAM probably got blue screens due to his "good" RAM, even though he claimed that Windows did not crash on him. Instead of letting you know of a problem up-front, Windows will run as best as it can and randomly crash.

P.S. If I mis-understood your post, and my interpretation of it above is not correct, then my appologies for my error.

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well try knoppix and see if that works. It may just be a problem with mandrake. If knoppix works then either install that or install another distro and see if that works. If knoppix won't work it is most likely a hardware issue.

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