[ubuntu-uk] pc parts compatibility

[Lucy]

On 14/12/2007, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> Hi Lucy,
>
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 10:33:46AM +0000, Lucy wrote:
> > I made the mistake of buying a pre-built system with a Jetway mobo
> > from Aria a few months back. I can say that while it definately runs
> > on Ubuntu I wouldn't recommend it. The machine kernel panics about
> > once a week and I had to take out half the ram just to get it to
> > recognise the hard drive. The ram problem is bios related and I'm
> > still waiting to hear back from Aria after a month! Next time I think
>
> Have you run a memory test for a long time - over 12 hours to determine if
> the RAM is just plain faulty?

Thanks, but I've done many runs with memtest and the RAM is fine. The
machine just doesn't want to pickup the hdd past the bios stage when
there's more than 2GB of RAM installed (i.e it won't boot from the hdd
and it doesn't get picked up from the live cd). I read on a forum
somewhere that it was a bios issue, but I can't find the post
unfortunately.