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Linux screwed up after ram upgrade
Name: haotj Date: February 18, 2005 at 12:00:18 Pacific OS: Linux CPU/Ram: AthlonXP2000/512
Comment:
A while back i had 256 ram. I sometimes run linux liveCD Knoppix or dual boot mandrake and windows. Then I got memory upgraded to 512 and was running only windows XP. Recently I need to use linux, so tried Knoppix again, but crashes after it loads KDE or crash during loading. Then tried Ubuntu(livecd), same thing happend. So I got mepis, samething crashes after it load or it crashes during loading. Then i tried to install Ubuntu, Suse 9.1, and mandrake 10.1, all crashed during installation. Since I run linux fine b4 memory up, so i did memtest, nutting is wrong. In addition, XP works perfectly w/o any programs.
Name: haotj Date: February 18, 2005 at 19:55:18 Pacific
Reply:
corretions: -mandrake 10 not 10.1 -In additon XP works perfectly w/o any PROBLEMS.
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Response Number 2
Name: haotj Date: February 19, 2005 at 11:15:01 Pacific
Reply:
i was reading the boot stuff carefully, and crash messeges. All seems to be pointing to graphic card. for example xfree86 server crashed but i never changed my graphic card, and mandrake used to run great b4. And my graphic card is running great in XP even its an old card(Raedon 7000 AGP 64M)
help plz!!!!!!!!
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Response Number 3
Name: 3Dave Date: February 22, 2005 at 08:51:30 Pacific
Reply:
Have you tried reseating the graphics card in case you nudged it when inserting the memory? What errors make you think it is your VGA card?
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