Hello Jeremy, My AMD Athlon with Shuttle Mainboard is working fine since yesterday. but .... many problems I had before. My Hardware is: Mainboard: Shuttle AN5OR Shipset: NVIDIA nForce3 150 Prozessor: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ SATA RAID Controller Sil3112A with SATA HD ST3160023AS (Seagate?) Video: ATI RV350 AP SCSI-Controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875 with SCSI-HD and WANGTEK Streamer 250 MB 2 Ethernet controller onbord 1 PCI Ethernet controller DVD-Rom and DVD-RW and, and, and many other interfaces and peripherals. For internet I use a old ELSA-Modem basic RS-232. On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Jeremy Sonander wrote:
Hi Guys,
I have a Biostar ideq 200p computer containing an Athlon 64 3200+ CPU, Nvidia Nforce3 chipset and a Nvidia Geforce 4 440 mx graphics card.
Booting from the DVD and selecting "Installation" causes the machine to hang after the message "starting hardware detection" Yes, by me also the same.
Did you try the manual installation mode? By me it helps: I did take the Manual Installation and could load the required kernel modules on confirmation. But there are other problems with DMA-Mode for Harddisk and pppd and arecord and Reiserfs. I take from now ext2 and ext3. Its saver after crash through DMA. The switch to DMA by booting before going to the runlevels is to early. If I switch on after hwscan, then is the booting alright with UDMA2-Mode. By me the DMA is off during boot normally. With DMA for IDE I can detect a fast speed for file operations. Without DMA the maschine is slower than a 166MHz PENTIUM I during file operations (copy 1 GByte files from a partition to another). Now I have a fine speed and I'am happy that the other things work too. pppd: It helps the option "novj". arecord: I take instead wavrec from package wavplay. Sound is OK. Network runs for 2 Interface (one onboard is not supported). It was 7 weeks hard work to get this Linux/WinXP-System on 64-Bit platform. 5 weeks for a few hardware booting problems, USB on front side and internal softmodem. And 2 weeks for installing, testing the system. Now I can configure the last things of application software and compilers (Visual Eiffel 4.1). I hope, it helps for your problem. Please excuse me for my bad english. Gruss Lothar Hansche Berlin, Germany