[PLUG] Redhat 9 install on Asus P4GE-V

[Launi]

  >-----Original Message-----
  >From: plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org 
  >[mailto:plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Russ Johnson
  >Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 8:31 PM
  >To: Launi
  >Cc: PLUG
  >Subject: Re: [PLUG] Redhat 9 install on Asus P4GE-V
  >
  >
  >* Launi <launi at zaramyth.net> [2003-04-10 20:14]:
  >> First off here is the error:
  >> CPU 0: machine check exception 0000000000000004
  >> Bank 0: A200000084010400
  >
  >Looks like a memory error. When you switched the memory to 
  >different banks, did the error move?
No the error did not move.
  >
  >If not, I'd suspect either the memory slot on the MB, or the 
  >chipset on the mainboard. 
  >
  >This web page 
  >  >(http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue77/lg_tips.htm  >l search for 
  >
  >'cpu0') lists that it may be a memory error 
  >too. 
  >
  >> At first I thought it was memory, so I exchanged it, no 
  >joy.  I yanked 
  >> out all network cards and have only one hard drive. I removed my 
  >> DVD-CDR and used a plain old CD, no joy. I have switch memory to 
  >> different banks and tried one module, no joy.
  >> 
  >> So I thought it was the main board and was about to 
  >exchange it when I 
  >> got the idea to try my original WinNT disk.  Well to my 
  >surprise it 
  >> installed. Well then I tried my DVD for Mandrake 8.1 
  >Pro-Suite and it 
  >> installed.
  >
  >It could be a flaky connector on the MB. 

Why do WinNT and my Mandrake DVD work on the hardware?
  >
  >> What does the error mean?
  >
  >According to more googling, there's a decoder out there. This page
  >(http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-03/1336.ht
ml) tells you more about it. 

> Is are there incompatibilities in home burned ISO images that affect 
> hardware?

Not to my knowledge. However, I have run across ISOs that only seem to burn
properly at 4x and lower. 

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