Well, that does it. Was:Re: [KLUG Members] Re: Install issues -- Bad Intel, trying out Linux installers but not Linux?

[Adam Bultman]

The motherboard is junk.  It won't even load windows.  Oh, well, I guess
I'll spend some money on an 1800+ or something like that.  "Oh, nuts".

-- 
Adam Bultman
adam@glaven.org
[ http://www.glaven.org ]


On 5 Jun 2002, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 10:28, Adam Bultman wrote:
> > Bizarre.  I finally got Red Hat installed.  I almost got debian installed
> > (I kicked the plug out) but slackware still complained.  Then I threw the
> > CDs and accidentally scratched them, making them useless.
> > Anyway, I baked the RH install by accidentally nuking lilo. (no, I didn't
> > use GRUB).  after that, when I would try to boot from my slack CD to just
> > get back into RH, I couldn't (crc error).  I'm burning woody and beehive
> > linux to CD as we speak, and if I find the newest slackware on iso, I'll
> > try that. But it appears that I got it installed. I took out all other
> > parts frm the computer (sound, tv card, other drives, etc) and it worked!.
> > However, it still looks like a computer show threw up in my basement.
>
> My best advise is to install and stick with one distro.  Don't try to
> install a number of distros and try them all out.  Because you aren't
> trying out different versions of Linux, you're trying out different
> versions of Linux installers.  As such, you're not learning Linux --
> seen it hundreds of times.  ;-P
>
> > Did I mention this? The beeps were from my VIDEO CARD. I put in another
> > video card, and it stopped beeping like that.  STupid Matrox...
>
> Actually, if it's the problem I'm thinking of, you should say "stupid
> Intel."  First generation AGP cards had a mechanical problem.  The
> problem was that Intel's draft AGP 1.0 spec differed from the final AGP
> 1.0 spec.  The difference was 0.5mm in position from the bracket.  As
> such, I had many first-gen AGP cards from ATI, Hercules, Matrox and
> others do this.  The fix?  A simple 0.5mm spacer on the bracket around
> the DB15 that added 0.5mm to the length of the card.
>
> -- Bryan
>
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