godfirst

I have a AK74EC motherboard in my older pc. It came with a 700 duron. I put a 1200 athlon in and it turns on, lets me change bios settings and will run the install for both ubuntu or xp. But when it finishes install and reboots, the OS will not run. It hangs up on me. Any Ideas???

ShortGirl2

Hey! You may want to check the speed on the RAM, to make sure that it's fast enough for the new processor.. Just a thought..

godfirst

The chip is 200fsb with PC133 ram with 3 sticks of 256mb. i believe the ram is ok for this cpu. on a side note, the computer actually runs bios and even runs bootable disks and installs operating systems ok. Just wont run the OS once it is loaded. Ubuntu can be run from the CD (instead of installing onto HDD). The computer wont even run it form the CD, It boots up to the menu to select what you want to do and then crashes if you run from CD, or installs and then crashes once install in done and reboots to run. I have never seen anything like this...

cohen

What have the RAM and CPU got to do with it?? Why would have to check what your CPU will take?? You have to check that your motherboard will take the speed of ram and the it will take the type of RAM, ie DDR or DDR2

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godfirst

I don't think ram has anything to do with it. I was replying to the first suggestion and providing additional info that may give a clue is to the problem. I know that the PC was working with the PC133 prior to the upgrade so it is ok. I know that the CPU is a 200FSB which will work with the ram (PC133 is backward compat. to PC100). I also checked to be sure that the new cpu would work with the motherboard and everything I found on the internet seems to say yes.

and the computer does work. I can run both the XP install and Ubuntu install and it runs just fine. It just refuses to boot either operating system. I have formated and re-partitioned the HDD to be sure nothing old is messed up and it still wont work, nor will it run Ubuntu from the CD (leads me to think not a HDD prob.)

cohen

When install XP did the OS freeze at all while installing???
It could be the hard drive.... it could be the ram... i have had this happen to me before while XP was installing and it would freeze and it ended up being the ram.

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godfirst

the installation never freezes or halts. I go through the entire install process w/o any issues. computer reboots when done and then gives error when it trys to boot the Operating system (either XP or Ubuntu). I should note that I am not trying to share, if I switch which OS im using, I re-format and start over... I' m a bit novis for all the dual load OS stuff... LOL. one more thought, I don't think it is the HDD b/c Ubuntu will not run from the CD either. Something about the configuration of something is stopping the computer from being able to run an OS, but is working well enough to allow the computer to function insofar as loading a bootable disk, editing bios and installing the OS all work... and seems to be stable. Wierdest thing ive seen yet!

cohen

i'm stumped

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