[lug] System load problems

[Steve A Hart]

Gotta love those salesmen......My response to them would be

"I don't give a flying $%#! about windows"

ANYWAY.....

Try running memtest.  I've run into issues similar to this because the 
default memory timing settings on the motherboard BIOS does not work for 
the installed memory.  If memtest comes back with errors and the memory 
is new, then try looking up the exact timing settings from the memory 
manufacturer.  Set those specifically in the BIOS and give it another go.

Also might want to check out:

http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/29424

Do a find on "M2N" and you'll see the post about the M2N-VM DVI 
motherboard.  Might be your issue....just a shot in the dark.

good luck

Steve

Dave Pitts wrote:
> 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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Steve Hart
Systems Administrator
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
University of Colorado Boulder
shart at colorado.edu
(303)492-8109