shimon Posted April 11, 2004 Share Posted April 11, 2004 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.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaKeY Posted April 11, 2004 Share Posted April 11, 2004 Which version of Mandrake? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shimon Posted April 11, 2004 Author Share Posted April 11, 2004 (edited) 9.2 quick gtg Edited April 11, 2004 by shimon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaKeY Posted April 11, 2004 Share Posted April 11, 2004 It might be an issue with your ATA drive. Maybe you could try something with kernel 2.6, like Mandrake 10 or the latest Fedora. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR_Candyman Posted April 11, 2004 Share Posted April 11, 2004 sounds like a hardware problem and not OS releated, since it's supposedly random Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted April 11, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 11, 2004 Hmmm... Running memtest86 comes to mind... :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shimon Posted April 13, 2004 Author Share Posted April 13, 2004 (edited) 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 Edited April 13, 2004 by shimon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted April 13, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 13, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shimon Posted April 14, 2004 Author Share Posted April 14, 2004 A. i dont not have a legal or ilegal copy of windows and B. i did use memtest86 it worked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shimon Posted April 15, 2004 Author Share Posted April 15, 2004 AND I HERE MEANS WITH MANDRAKE ITS WORKING IKNOW I DIDNT MAKE IT THAT CLEAR - ah dam caps lock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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