Relix3000 Posted April 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Well, so far Mandrake has not crashed. A good sign =). If it does I will do a repair install (which so far I have no clue on how to do...just put CD1 and select Repair install rite?) and I will let you know the results. Thanks for the amazing help once more =D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relix3000 Posted April 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 Well, I did a fresh install (deleted everything) and the problem is still there. Maybe its an overheating problem? I NEVER shudown the PC...but still, WinXP works. Maybe software? This is driving me nuts but its interesting lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted April 13, 2005 Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 I used to have constant lockups under Linux (and I mean any Linux) with older BIOS revisions of my MSI 865PE mainboard. Windoze weren't working perfectly either, but way better anyway. Since the last BIOS revision they didn't appear again with any Linux I've toyed with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted April 13, 2005 Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 If your problem was overheating, Windows and Linux would be affected equally. So that can't be the problem. Maybe you do have some Linux incompatible hardware. Maybe you should consider installing another Linux distribution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relix3000 Posted April 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 Well...my PC's from 2000, so yeah the BIOS COULD be a problem. And Mandrake never said about incopatible hardware while installing, but...which distro do you recommend thats user friendly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted April 13, 2005 Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 I am a linux noob and I have never installed anything but Mandrake. Suse? Ubuntu? Fedora? :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relix3000 Posted April 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2005 I am a Linux n00b as well =P. Well, I was thinking of maybe trying Fedora, but it doesnt have an application installing tool like Mandrake or Debian have. I wouldnt like to forget MDK yet, its the best distro. Right now I am on the ugly WinXP because I kinda got annoyed of it crashing on me nearly every 20 hours. Does anyone else have a similar problem? Anyway, since I like to solve these kind of problems I am going to be on it until i fix it. Could anyone guess if installing the NVIDIA driver would do fix it (it seems like the problem is the X-Server since the actual kernel is running, so the display manager must have the fault)? Thanks for the dedicated help! This place rocks here =P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwhobbes Posted April 14, 2005 Report Share Posted April 14, 2005 (edited) I had the Exact same problem Try going into the Control Centre, then "boot", then "boot loader". You should see a few options below; "Enable ACPI" "Force no local APIC" and maybe "Force no APIC" Anyway it's these options you should try enabling and disabling, as this was the only solution I found after Searching google for hours. Currently I have "Enable ACPI" DISABLED, and "Force No Local APIC" ENABLED. My System hasn't froze in months ;) Edited April 14, 2005 by cwhobbes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted April 14, 2005 Report Share Posted April 14, 2005 Yeah, that's always a good idea. I was having the occasional 'random' freeze on my newish desktop (not entirely random, it would only ever happen after some sort of hardware event, usually a mouse click)...I turned ACPI and APIC off two days ago and it hasn't done it again yet. This kind of thing is notoriously difficult to track down, though, in extreme cases you need a kernel guru with something hooked up to the serial port...:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relix3000 Posted April 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2005 (edited) Well, going to try the stuff you told me cwhobbes. This is because the motherboard is around year 2000 I think, since I saw the logs and it said the BIOS of it was too old or something like that. Anyway, I am trying that and Ill edit the post if it works or it doesnt. *Edit: It looks, a problem ocurred. I did the exact settings as you hobbes, and when I rebooted my PC it stopped in Calibrating Size of something or similar thing. Thing is Mandrake wont boot. I tried to reinstall the boot loader but the problem is there. Failsafe worked but I have no clue on how to fix that from there. So...I am now stuck on WinXP till I fix that =P.* Edited April 15, 2005 by Relix3000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relix3000 Posted April 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2005 Well, after many days fighting back, the problem has been finally solved! What was to blame? The NVIDIA GeForce 2 Mx400 card. In Windows I had no problems until a day ago when the same syntomps appeared on Windows. I plugged the card out and used the built-in graphic system...and no problems. On both of the OSes. I really want to thank ALL the guys that helped me here, especially Adamw =). You really are a techie ;-). Thanks a lot and Ill be sure to hang around here and when I have enough knowledge help other guys the same way i was helped. Thanks a LOT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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