Abe wrote:
> I'm running mandrake 7.1 on a Duron 600 with ASUS A7V motherboard. I did the
> install myself. 7.1 installed perfectly on my system. Perhaps it is the Abit
> board that is causing the problems? The other possible issue is power supply
> and RAM. The Athlon series want a high quality 300w power supply and AMD
> recommends that you use new ram in conjunction with these chips. I'm using
> pc-100 ram that is about a year old in my system and I haven't had any
> problems.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Abe
>
> >===== Original Message From Michael Scottaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> =====
> >"Scott Adamson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Has anyone managed to get any distro to work with an AMD Athlon Thunderbird
> >& an Abit KA7-100 motherboard ? machine runs windows NT fine, installs
> Redhat,
> >but it fails with a kernel panic when trying to start for the first time,
> >Gentus Linux ( rebadged Redhat supplied with the motherboard) would not even
> >complete the installation and Caldera wouldn't install (fortunately it failed
> >quickly :). The machine is not overclocked.
> >================================
> >Hi Scott,
> > I'm running L-M 7.1 on an Athlon Thunderbird 750. ASUS A7V, 200mhz FSB.
> >Can't be too much help on install, however, since i bought the box with OS
> >pre-installed from ASL. Obviously it's possible, but not sure if they had to
> >jumpp through any hoops to get it running. I did notice that they had
> >upgraded the kernel to 2.2.16.
> >Mike
> >
> >"Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol
> >than alcohol has taken out of me."
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if u have sound on mother board. turn it off. check it
