On Sunday 07 April 2002 4:29 am, Linus Drouhard wrote: > Hi all, > I have following this list for some 8 or 9 months now and have obtained a > lot of useful advice and tips. I'm now operating what is close to becoming > a boat anchor. I have an AMD K6-2 running at 420 MHz in an ASUS P5A > motherboard. Most everything else is standard, SB16, Nvidia TNT2, 160MB > Ram, two 20 Gig Maxtor drives, Ricoh CD-RW and generic CD-reader. I have > been fighting a weird problem the last couple of weeks. I loaded MD 8.2 > and really liked it, but could not get a printer installed. Whenever I ran > PrinterDrake, it asked me for Disc 1 and tried to install something. My > computer would freeze solid during install, responding only to the reset > button. I tried a fresh reinstall of MD 8.2. Same. Tried a fresh install > of 8.1. Froze during the install. Civileme suggested a bad CD. I burned > a new one. Same. I tried installing from a different CD-drive. Same. I > pulled my soundcard and every other "non-essential" card and disk drive. I > was able to reinstall MD 8.2. I ran PrinterDrake. It wanted to install > some package again (CUPS and Foomatic, I believe). Out of frustration, I > just hit "cancel" and you guessed it, it worked! I now have a printer. I > thought I was home free. Remember the soundcard I pulled? I reinstalled > the card and tried to run "soundcfg". Not there. I ran software manager. > Froze. Solid. > > > At this point, I'm at a loss, other than tying it to a boat. Any > suggestions? Has anyone had good experiences with an ECS K7S5A > motherboard? > > Thanks for bearing with my rantings and ramblings. Even if I don't figure > it out... I feel better. > > Linus
Whoops.. just realised it is the Ausus MB you are having these problems with.. Still now you know what to expect with a K7S5A derek
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