3 crash and burns, give up now?

[Drum Thumper]

Like others have said, specs of the system please. Mobo, Video card, hard drives, optical drive.

[noopypoop]

I dont really know, the mobo is an unnamable crap intel mobo that was made specifically for my pc, an integrated gpu and a geforce 5200 fx(the 5200 is turned on and the integrated is disabled. HDD all i know is it's 160gb. the optical drive is a dvd+- writer/cd- writer, and a dvd rom. The writer is 4x.

[Drum Thumper]

I dont really know, the mobo is an unnamable crap intel mobo that was made specifically for my pc

What is the make and model number of the PC? That's a good starting point, and some detective work will get us answers for the rest.

[noopypoop]

What is the make and model number of the PC? That's a good starting point, and some detective work will get us answers for the rest.

I finally found out the hardware.


PC: HP Pavilion a1113w

Mobo: Asus PTGD-LA

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...name=c00361570


Opticle drives:


16x DVD(+/-)R/RW DL drive
(must use Double-Layer media discs in order to take advantage of the DL technology)
type Attributes
DVD+R DL Write Once 2.4X
DVD+R Write Once 16X
DVD+RW Rewritable 4X
DVD-R Write Once 8X
DVD-RW Rewritable 4X
DVD ROM Read 16X
CD-R Write Once 40X
CD-RW Rewritable 24X
CD-ROM Read 40X
DVD-ROM drive
Maximum speed: 16X

[noopypoop]

Well, it turns out that the problem was the mobo. I was reading around on another forum. Someone had an hp with the exact same mobo. He tried everything with no results. Now look at his last post:

Ok well I offically got fed up with trying to install this OS. I went out and did a little upgrading, well pretty much went out and got a new Mobo. Success! SuSE 10.3 is up and running! I wonder what the problem might have been, I have a feeling it was something to do with the mobo, it was an HP computer. Switched that out and it works like a dream now.

Still confused as to what it might have been. Not that it really matters now that its working but it still kinda urks me that I had to go out and get a new mobo (which its 100% better than the one that was in there) to get this to work lol.

*sorry for the double post*

[h3moglobe0]

Hiya

Well it looks like newest SuSE is better then before - many people like it and works better then other distros.

Anyway
Have you seen this thread?
Especialy 3rd post.

By the way, I had to pass the parameter 'nolapic' to the kernel at boot from GRUB, otherwise the system would hang halfway through booting.

Google around grub and nolapic options and try to play with it.
Sometimes this makes OS stop at start or at the end when closing.

Good luck with Tux

[progbuddy]

Try it on your stock graphics if you have them. The old MX4000 card I had wouldn't load Ubuntu cause it had VESA driver issues.

[Drum Thumper]

I'm sorry Noop, I forgot all about this thread. It quickly became my experience that HP boards do not like any OS other than Micro$oft stuff. I'm working on trying to find a workaround, but I'm beginning to think that without some major hardware hacking, it very well might not be possible at all to get it to work properly.

In order to get Ubuntu 8.04 to work on my HP branded ASUS board, I had to leave a live CD in the optical drive and make sure that I selected "boot from first hard drive". It worked, but it is also a major pain in the ass.