kenbo Posted September 12, 2004 Report Share Posted September 12, 2004 I've had this problem since 9.0 (I'm using 10.0 CE now) When I boot off CD1 and hit enter at the first screen everything works fine. I can install upgrade etc. But If I hit F1 for other options the computer freezes. I can't even Cntl-Alt-Del. I have not been able to find this problem anywhere on the net (I love Google! :) ) Anyone heard of this before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 13, 2004 Report Share Posted September 13, 2004 nope, not really. there can be many many causes for this "behavior" of your box. in order to find the problem, we would need some info about your hardware. maybe it is a graphic-card problem, maybe a motherboard issue, maybe a software thing... who knows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenbo Posted September 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2004 Oops! I was gonna leave that info. Motherboard ecs k7s5a Proc: amd athlon xp 2400+ vid: ati AIW 8500 Sound: audigy2 platinum Mem: 512M Samsung DVD-Rom SD-612 Artec CD Burner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenbo Posted September 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2005 Now I really need to figure this out. I stopped using Linux altogether for awhile. Now I'm trying to install LE2005 and am getting IRQ errors during install ("disabling IRQ #17 / nobody cared!"). Which I believe I can solve with acpi=off. Only I still have the same f1 freezing problem. My hardware has changed: Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 MB the same amd XP 2400+ proc ATI X800XT onboard nforce sound 1G ddr Mem the same Samsung DVD-Rom LG gsa-4163B DVD burner As an experiment I've tried this with other distros and the same thing happens. (the f1 thing not the IRQ problem) I've got gentoo running now but I want my Mandy back! If anyone can help please let me know! Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 4, 2005 Report Share Posted September 4, 2005 First, unplug all usb devices and printers. Then try booting with the following parameters (at the boot-screen press "F1" for advanced options instead of "enter") linux noapic nolapic Oh... turn off your Plug'n'play in BIOS if it is activated. Maybe you need to disable dma from the command-line, too. Just test some options. And take a look at the other threads in the "installing Mandriva" forum. There is an enormous amount of helpful topics. If everything breaks, try to install it without the graphical installer. (Text-mode install) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bb002 Posted September 4, 2005 Report Share Posted September 4, 2005 Are you using the same CD? Could be a bad download or burn. Only thing I can think of that would follow you to a new machine. But you say you've tried other distros. Odd...very odd. have you tried both of your cd-roms drives? I noticed you said the dvd-rom was from the previous machine. other than that I can't think of anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenbo Posted September 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2005 First, unplug all usb devices and printers. Then try booting with the following parameters (at the boot-screen press "F1" for advanced options instead of "enter") <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Um.... that's the part I'm having problems with! I can't hit F1! That's what locks up the computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenbo Posted September 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2005 Are you using the same CD? Could be a bad download or burn. Only thing I can think of that would follow you to a new machine. But you say you've tried other distros. Odd...very odd. have you tried both of your cd-roms drives? I noticed you said the dvd-rom was from the previous machine. other than that I can't think of anything. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, It's super weird! since the only thing that's the same between the two systems is the proc and the one DVD-rom. I'm gonna try disconnecting the drive and try again. Could the proc have anything to do with it? (hope not!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenbo Posted September 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2005 I got it! When I went inside to unplug the DVD I realized that there was also a PCI controller card that was also in my old system. That was the culprit. I removed that and f1 works fine! Arctic: the "linux noapic nolapic" did the trick for the install too. Thank you both for your time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smorgje Posted September 6, 2005 Report Share Posted September 6, 2005 (edited) A friend of mine had a problem with his AMD in his Laptop. It wouldn't start the vmlinuz from the mandrake CD. It did boot the vmlinuz from Suse, so he's using that now on his laptop. He might be trying a newer version of Mandriva later on, at least, that's what he said at first, being a mandriva-user. But I think he's getting quite used to Suse now, but I'll try to get him back to our side... ;) But seriously, I think it could have something to do with the proc, but I'm only speculating. [edit] NVM, you've solved it already :P [/edit] Edited September 6, 2005 by Smorgje Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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