[lug] System load problems

[Dave Pitts]

Hello:

I've got a new system that fails to load Linux. It's an X86_64 system 
based on an ASUS M2N-VM DVI mother board with an AMD Athalon dual core 
CPU at 2.9Ghz, 2GB of ram and a 250 GB Sata disk. I'm also using the 
integrated Ethernet and Video controllers. I've tried CentOS 5.2, Ubuntu 
7.1 and Fedora Core 9.

The loads die in various places. Sometimes I get garbage written to the 
screen, sometimes it just hangs, sometimes the installer get a segment 
violation, ... I've even booted the Ubuntu DVD, without an install, 
formatted a partition and tried downloading an image to have the 
download hang.

I've run the Ubuntu memory diagnostic that comes on the DVD and it passes.

Are there any settings on the mother board that I may have to set? Or???

I've had the system back twice to the store that sold it to me only to 
be told that it runs Windows just fine....

*SIGH*

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