Re: non-install report

[Kenan Esau <kenan.esau@conan.de>]

Am Montag, den 29.11.2004, 22:13 -0600 schrieb Hank Barta:
> I've been trying to install some flavor of Debian AMD-64 to a system I
> upgraded last night with little success.
> Hardware
>     Abit AV8 with VIA K8T800 Pro/ VT8237 chipset
>          SATA/RAID (not in use yet)
>          VT8237 IDE
>          Audio (AC-97?)
>     3400+ processor
>     512MB/1GM RAM
> (recycled hardware)
>     Some year+ old Seagate ATA drive - 130GB
>     Ancient #9 video card (S3968)
>     Ancient Tulip Ethernet card
>     IDE CDROM burner
> 
> Trying any of the ISOs that looked like they made sense (anything save
> the netboot) the system was horribly unstable. It ranged from
> rebooting instantly when hitting <return> from the boot prompt to
> locking up while loading modules from the CD or partitioning and
> formatting the hard drive. 

Hmm -- to me this doesn't sound like an debian-amd64-related problem.
Have you tried another memory module. Or try clocking your memory
slower. 

I've expierenced similar errors on an ia32-machine. Clocking down the
memory "solved" the problem.

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