Abit KD7 - System Hangs, Scroll lock, Caps Lock lights on keyboard flash
Randy Kelsoe
randykel at swbell.net
Sat Dec 20 15:02:08 UTC 2003
spu at faith4miracle.org wrote:
>Then I proceeded to reinstall my operating system (Fedora Core Linux 1) The
>floppy booted fine, resulting in the installation program starting off of my
>external, USB2 CDRW drive. The installation proceeded normally until it got to
>the part about "Formatting / (root) partition", then the system locked up, and
>the above mentioned lights on the keyboard started flashing on and off, in
>unision, just like in the first example. Then I got some error messages
>about "Kernel panic" I then proceeded to try installing again, with the exact
>same result, at the exact same point in the installation.
>
>
Before you reinstall anything, you should get the Western Digital
floppy, and run the extended diags from the diagnostics section. If you
have a copy of memtest86, you should run that as well. Have you checked
the MD5 sums on the Fedora isos? And, did you run the mediacheck on your
cd's before starting the install? Your USB CDRW might be suspect, as well.
I have a WD 40G drive as my primary master and a Maxtor 40G as my
primary slave, and I have had no problems.
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