2005/7/4, Paul Alfille :

Attempts: WinXP: Embarassingly stable. SuSE9.3 (64bit) crashes Fedora Core 4 64-bit crashes Ubantu64 crashes DamnSmallLinux (embedded under XP with QEMU) stable!!!

WTH is crashing?? what service ? error message? -- Cristian Rodriguez. "for DVDs in Linux screw the MPAA and ; do dig $DVDs.z.zoy.org ; done | \ perl -ne 's/\.//g; print pack("H224",$1) if(/^x([^z]*)/)' | gunzip"

--- Paul Alfille wrote:

A new AMD64 bit machine, new SUSE 9.3, should be heaven.

Machine hangs after a few minutes of use, but I can't tell why. I hope someone recognizes a problem part so I can address it.

Parts: Motherboard: Asus A8V-E includes: Disk controller: VIA SATA and IDE drives Network: Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E gigabit sound, usb, firewire on board CPU: AMD Athlon64 XP3500+ Graphics: Gigabyte PCI-Express 6600GT (NX66T128D)

Attempts: WinXP: Embarassingly stable. SuSE9.3 (64bit) crashes Fedora Core 4 64-bit crashes Ubantu64 crashes DamnSmallLinux (embedded under XP with QEMU) stable!!!

Obviously SuSE is my choice. I keep trying online update, hoping that the system will stay up long enough to complete and that a fix is coming.

Any thoughts?

Paul Alfille

-- When Windows is stable, but linux is not I like to check the bios. Google around for bios setup info with linux and linux64. The basic idea is that you can not shadow anything, no mem holes, etc.

Back when 32bit was new I had a linux box that behaved like you described. The shadowed bios system calls were only 16 bit and not needed. I am guessing you have some 32bit code in the bios that you need to disable - just use linux drivers for everything. Rafe

Summary: New AMD64 machine ASUS A8VE-deluxe motherboard was horribly unstable. First the upgrade to BIOS 1008 helped allow Suse installation. Next the motherboard needed to be replaced after a month because it wouldn't boot. Next even WinXP crashed and the entire disk was garbled. Finally increasing RAM error prompted a RAM replacement. Now everything works! (SuSE10 for AMD64) Both sets of RAM are labeled: KVR400X64C3A/512 The newer (good) chips have components on both sides and are also labeled PC3200 CL3 184-pin I hope my struggles help someone.