-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote:
> MB : FIC PA-2013 (revision 2.0) > CPU : K6-2-450 with huge fan on top of it. > HD : IBM 15 Gb > CD : CD-DVD Toshiba > Sound : SB live (value) > Video : AGP Diamond V770 TNT2 > Modem : Actiontech PCI > Linux : Debian Slink installation I've got many of these same components...PA2013 board, K6-II 450. The notable difference is the video board (mine is a 3dfx voodoo3). All this hardware is supported fine by Linux, with only possible exceptions being the modem (PCI modems are usually not compatible) and the video board (I'm just saying that as a disclaimer, since I don't know anything at all about it.) I am inclined to believe that you are in fact facing some kind of hardware problem that windows is able to ignore for some reason. Nothing on your hardware list should be crashing Linux if it's working properly. I would try swapping some stuff out with different, similar hardware. Try different HD cables, a different disk, a different video board. It might even be the motherboard. You might also want to try running your hard drive on your secondary IDE controller, and disabling the primary controller in the BIOS. It could be that one of the controllers is bad but the other is OK. I had to RMA my PA2013 after experiencing some strange crashes in Linux. Disk IO would stop working completely. If i left procmeter running, I could try to run a program and watch the system load increment by one with each new process I tried to start. The only way out of this state was to reboot. I still don't know what caused it, but replacing the motherboard fixed the problem... Hope this helps you. noah PGP Public Key available at http://www.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html or by `finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOFVZQIdCcpBjGWoFAQHL1wP/XLAX4G35bYLZ5ffr9hUBL1EDdLTQx2Ni Mt+gTeZgxBOCvCBYB8DE9qt9DRr33y3usNKUsdHyFmEeCJSL3DVh0kroQS6UWWwt T9+DPsxaclCLZCBQEDjG788fGm4rgOcrG1AtL0/55EBGNsP2FUNzziSxnfmE6TvH dehk6BeIrQ4= =c6kU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
