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I don't think its 1) or 3). Could you describe how I could correct the memory problem?

I think I know what the problem is now, It crashes on this blue screen and then gives the 'fatal error' screen (in last post). Then it gives the following message.

Sorry, the medium is a DVD and only my DVD drive plays DVDs (which is my master device).

Sorry I don't know what they means :huh: :wacko: :sad:

Can you explain these screens I get when trying to install Linux?

I am bumping this because the exact same applies to me :)

:( I decided to format my entire PC and reinstall Windows. I still want Mandrake though, but when I boot the CD it still has the DOS installation rather than the graphical installation. Do you know what causes this?

I don't know how to change the boot though. Is there a way for it not to load all that nonsense at the start, becuase there's no way for me to get out of it.l

OK the LILO is no longer a problem; I just repaired it using the mandrake CD. Only the eth1 FAILED part and then the ppp0 hanging up and not doing anything for 10 minutes (you can't hear anything from the processor either) is hanging it up.

My last post was innaccurate sorry about that, I've added some screenshots. Thanks

I bought a new 160 GB Hard Drive and installed that. Then I installed Linux Mandrake 10.1 DVD on one of the 80GB partitions. Then that was all going fine, but on the opening sequence there is a PPPo Failed, Eth1 Failed (or something like that) It crashes during the searching for PPPo now. Why does it load this wierd sequence of checks every time I load linux? is there a way to prevent this? Also sometimes when I boot the computer it goes L 0707070707070707070707070707070707070707707070707070