I'll keep this as brief as possible without leaving out vitals. My system ran win98 for two days to test out some software...... suddenly, my mobo dies of the CHI virus (thanks Bill). My old motherboard was a gigabyte GA -7 VXE-4 and ran a 800MHz AMD B-class processor.
My new mobo is Gigabyte GA -7ZX-R, it mainly differs from the old mobo in having onboard sound (CT5880 chipset) and a dual bios function. The old system dual booted win2K and redhat 7.2. Under the new hardware heirachy I can install Win2k no probs... 7.2 installs fine but dies during the boot process. The error can occur at any point of the boot , it's main features are an error that it can not address a virtual address, and that the CPU ID= 0, then Eflags (soemthing) then it writes groups of zeros FOR MILES across and down the screen., and I can not page up to re read the error messages. Sounds good so far? try this out. Install redhat 7.0.. no problem. Identifies the processor ... has a bit a winge about the DHCP address that the servers hands it (refers to it a the lpd point and says the address is bad ... I don't know what this means) then loads up and runs..... If I upgrade 7.0 to 7.2 it boots ... then gives me three (3) cdrom icons ( I only have 2 cdroms), then crashes the KDE panel and won't recover it (even after a reboot) and basically undermines any confidence in trying to record data anywhere near it. I have tried chagning the memory, the harddrive, not hooking up the cdrom drives, pulling out and trying different network cards, disabled onboard sound , enabled onboard sound, ran the memory at 133MHZ, ran it at 100MHz, I have replaced the IDE cables, I have disbaled EVERYTHING in the bios, then set it back to fail safe..... I have had no luck after 4 days of trying to reinstall 7.2. Suggesting I stay with 7.0 is not helpful.... anything else is greatly appreicatiated. (I have tried dancing naked under full moon and chanting, this has also failed to bring the desired results.) yours (going) insanely, mick boda -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
