Malfunctioning system
Eitan Bonderover
redyaky_lists at alltel.net
Sun May 9 01:06:20 UTC 2004
Dear all,
I recently put together a computer. It's an Athlon 64 3000+ with 512 MB
of RAM, an AOpen AK86-L mobo, NEC DVD+/-RW, 160 GB SATA drive and some
older ATI graphics card. I've had no end of problems with this system
and I'm asking for some advice here mostly because Fedora (FC1 for x86
64) is the only distro that I managed to install successfully.
The first problem I had was that the memory was flaky. This was solved
by moving the RAM module to the next slot.
Memtest usually works for a couple of passes but then usually crashes
due to an "unexpected interrupt".
Currently I had some issues with the fan, it was rubbing up against some
power cables, not good at all. Ever since that Fedora won't boot. It
tries to set the hostname and seems to hang.
When I boot knoppix I have issues. It complains about the USB modules
but my USB mouse and keyboard seem to work fine. The CD seems to have
errors in it (occasionally during the boot process there will be a read
error but the boot will continue) when I start up but the same CD has no
problems when I run it on my IBM Thinkpad.
In short, the system is unstable. Fedora used to work on it, but had
problems (at some point my DVD drive was not autodetected. In fact,
there appeared to be no cdrom device at all, which I find very confusing.)
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what to do before I start
replacing parts?
Thanks,
Eitan
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