Unstable Fedora Installation

[Bruce Feist]

Gilboa Davara wrote:

>Sounds like a hardware problem to me.
>Can you post your machine configuration, include the power supply and
>memory used?
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It's an MSI RS480M2-IL mother board with an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ CPU, and 
two 512MB DDR-400 PC3200 RAM.  Primary hard drive is an 80 gig IDE 
ATA/100 WD drive, and there are actually four different 250 gig SATA/150 
WD drives, as well as  a pair of Lite-on 16x DVD+-R/RW IDE dual layer 
drives.  The CPU has a 400 watt VTech power supply, and there are 
multiple fans in the case.

I don't have more specific information on the power supply available 
without opening up the computer (which I'll do if that'd be helpful).

The network adapters are the built-in one, and a Netgear GA311 Gigabit 
Ethernet.

Bruce

>On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 18:49 -0400, Bruce Feist wrote:
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>>I've installed the AMD 64-bit version of Fedora, 2.6.13, on a new 
>>computer with 1 gig of RAM, one PCI-connected IDE drive, and three SATA 
>>disks.  My most recent experience with Linux was RH 8.1 or so.  Bad 
>>things are happening...
>>
>>1)  The computer locks up frequently.  It usually happens while I'm 
>>executing rsync or rcp
>>
>>2)  Nautilus crashed repeatedly.  I was 
>>able to bring up three terminal windows, but now I cannot start up other 
>>applications such as Thunderbird.  'top' reports that I'm using almost 
>>all of the memory installed, although I'm barely touching the swap file; 
>>I wonder if that has something to do with it.
>>
>>3)  I'm now getting various "Oops" messages from Fedora in my terminal 
>>window as I rsync.
>>