Athlon 64 stability issues?

[Severin Schoepke]

Hi Mike,


Mike Payson schrieb:
> I installed Ubuntu about a week or so ago. After frequent lockups 
> while trying to install the incorrect version (x86 on an Athlon 64), I 
> finally got it installed when I switched to the correct version.

there is actually no 'incorrect' version for an Athlon64... You can 
install both the A64 and the x86 version on these CPU's. You don't have 
to use a 64 Bit OS on a 64 Bit CPU (Most people probably run 32 Bit OS's 
on their 64 Bit CPU's because the 64 Bit OS's normally have less 
features than the 32 Bit version. You don't get as much drivers for 
WinXP 64 as you get for WinXP 32 and you don't get all the software for 
Ubuntu 32 for ubuntu 64 (e.g. wine)).

> So with that info, here are my questions:
> 2) Same question with the nVidia card/drivers.

I actually start to believe that the NVidia drivers are not that 
stable... I have a Centrino laptop and an Athlon64 desktop that have 
nothing in common other than a NVidia graphics card... And on both I 
used to get this problem:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2006-November/100379.html

It didn't happen for a long time, so maybe the newest NVidia drivers are 
more stable (I started to use the ones from Alberto Milone)...


Not much helpful information, I know.... But maybe it helps somehow...


cheers, Severin