Colin Carter wrote:
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 07:20, 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
I can only wish you good luck. I have been fighting my new TPG AMD 64 laptop for well over a week, with zero support from TPG. My emails have been absolutely ignored by TPG. Regards, Colin
Support!, from a bunch of One Note Samba-ists? You must be kidding. They hear Linux, shrug and say they don't know how to play that one. I bought this shiny new 64-bit Acer laptop in April of last year, blasted XP off it after it booted up successfully. 9.2 x86_64 installed almost flawlessly, just one problem with audio until a google search foun the correct modules I needed to load. Months later I had a problem where the CD/DVD gave garbage characters as the make and model. I rang Acer Support, eventually to be told that Linux overwrites part of the BIOS and that could be the trouble. As I was about to tell them they talking out of their hats, it started working again and is still good. Check if there is a BIOS update, that's often the trouble on most boxen. If you can, try booting a knoppix CD to see if it works. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks