Malfunctioning system

[Jeff Vian]

Gregory Woodbury wrote:

>On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 08:06:20PM -0500, Eitan Bonderover wrote:
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>>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.
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>>The first problem I had was that the memory was flaky. This was solved 
>>by moving the RAM module to the next slot.
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>>Memtest usually works for a couple of passes but then usually crashes 
>>due to an "unexpected interrupt".
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>>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.
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I hope that did not overheat your CPU


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>>Does anyone have any suggestions as to what to do before I start 
>>replacing parts?
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>Along with the suggestions to check temperatures (perhaps via the BIOS
>Setup) I'd pay close attention to the power supply.  I've had several
>systems that were flakey due to underpowered voltages.
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