20 Jul
2002
20 Jul
'02
17:43
On Saturday 20 July 2002 19.28, Jim Hatridge wrote:
I was given a Compaq Presario 9520. That's a PI-75 with 73mb of main memory. I've tried to do a standard SuSE 8.0 install on this thing and it crashes. So I dropped back to SuSE 7.2 and it still crashes. It seems to be something with the CPU. Can anyone give me any hints about Compaqs? Is there anything special I have to do to get Linux to load on to it. Perhaps I should replace the CPU?
I think the first you should do is run a memory test on it. In my experience that is the number 1 source of problems when the installer crashes. 73 meg is also a fairly unusual number for RAM memory. //Anders