Installation problem

[Basil Chupin]

On 26/04/10 07:36, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Karl Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
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>> On 04/24/2010 11:31 PM, Alan Duval wrote:
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>>> I had a ASUS M3A MB and AMD 64 Athlon X2 CPU which I hadn't used and
>>> decided to make a PC using it. It will install WIN XP but Ubuntu 8.04,
>>> 9.04, Linux Mint 7, 32 bits, Linux Mint 8 KDE 64 X86, Fedora 10 Live,
>>> and Knoppix 6.21 all have problems namely when I open Open Office or
>>> Firefox the screen freezes. GOS is the only OS that works without
>>> freezing and that was originally installed on a removable HD on another
>>> computer with a different MB. This is all strange as GOS is based on
>>> Ubuntu 8.04. Does anyone know why opening Open Office or Firefox should
>>> cause the system to freeze with the other operating systems?
>>>
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>> Â  Â  I googled your board and suggest you go to this web page and see
>> which is your board and d/l what you might need.
>>
>> http://www.asus.com/search.aspx?searchitem=1&searchkey=m3a
>>
>> Your problem is that Windows can load but Linux can not. Find something
>> that talks to this.
>>
>> 73 Karl
>>
>>      
> Have you discarded hardware issues? Perhaps you should run Memtest
> from the Grub screen for some hours and check if your memory chips are
> really fine. Linux is less forgivable with faulty hardware than
> Windows.
>
> L.
>    

Oh, what you just wrote reminded me about something I learnt very early 
when I started with Linux.

This may now be outdated with the improvements in the kernel, I don't 
know, but Linux expects that the BIOS has full control over the 
computer's resources. This means that you should not have in the BIOS 
the setting that the computer is using Plug-n-Play operating system - 
like Windows. Change this setting this setting to "not using PnP OS" or 
whatever the BIOS has. Windows will still function perfectly.

BC



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