FC5 Installation Killing Computers

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 19:54 -0400, Robert Gann wrote:


> Two years ago we ran FC4 on both types of these computers with no
> problem.  However, attempting to install FC5 has killed several
> computers.  We have now burned out two of the 64 bit computers and two
> of the 32 bit computers.  Generally, the behavior is that they go a
> ways into the installation process and hang.  After retrying the
> installation another time, the computer is basically dead; when I
> tried a Knoppix CD-ROM one of them could not get past the screen
> telling you to press a key to boot Knoppix.  One of the 64 bit
> computers went “poof”, and I smelled smoke.  It is,of course,
> completely dead.

Did you take the computers to the vendor you bought them from? It's not
the OS, it's more likely to be power supplies, which burn out right and
left lately. Mine went ape on me, it took about 5 days for the power
supply to blow, which pinpointed the problem. Ric

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