Roseland, Winton wrote:
After service pack 6A, NT started to lock up on it, so I went to Win2K but after a service pack I started getting lock-ups again where it appeared that the IDE controller did not respond. Linux has worked well, as Knoppix will run for months before I reboot.
1) I have a HP PSC 1315 printer attached to a USB 2.0 PCI card, and all recent Debian based versions died during the install as long as the printer was plugged in. A message came up about initializing or checking the USB and that was the end. There were no errors: it just never did anything else.
Did you consider a problem with your hardware?My workstation often (more than once a day) got freezes under Win XP, but very seldom (once a month) under Debian Sarge. This was mostly after opening a large file. A boot into memtest showed my very quickly, that the memory is corrupt. After changing I never had freezes.
There can be a lot of other reasons like damaged capacitors on the mainboard, bugs in the chipset drivers, a weak power supply etc.
Helmut Wollmersdorfer