Hangs in XP not in Mandrake??

drdisko · 01-29-2006, 10:46 AM

I have an oldish PC, with an Athlon 1600+. matsonic ms motherboard
The OS was XP until about 1 year ago when it began to freeze or hang. a friend recommended mandrake as he could seen no reason why it should be hanging.I have used Mandrakefor about a year but I am not getting on with linux at all. I have a copy of XP professional that I am trying to install but midway through installation it starts to freeze again.

What could possibly be the reason for this. It didn't freeze once during the last year on Mandrake

drdisko · 01-29-2006, 11:46 AM

ok so i've managed to fully install but windows freezes after maybe 10-20 mins everytime. What can I do to find out whats faulty.

**Praetor** · 01-30-2006, 02:44 AM

Im guessing memory issues? Have a run through of mamtest86+

Also, what parts are in the box Questions 101

drdisko · 01-30-2006, 07:00 PM

ok ran that cpuz thingy

**Praetor** · 01-30-2006, 07:01 PM

Does it pass a memtest?

drdisko · 01-30-2006, 07:03 PM

trying to do that now

drdisko · 01-30-2006, 07:27 PM

having trouble creating boot disc with memtest on, do i just burn a blank cd with the .iso on??

drdisko · 01-30-2006, 07:36 PM

did memtest from hcidesigns and there is no probs flagged
can't run the one linked on this thread, also scandisk finds no problems.

Dngrsone · 01-30-2006, 08:15 PM

Please read the Questions 101 that Praetor linked.

Have you tried any other flavors of Linux? Mandrake isn't the only one.

We need to know what you have in the box, what's going on when the system crashes-- programs running, what you are doing at the time teh crash occurs, are the crashes repeatable?

**Praetor** · 01-30-2006, 08:58 PM

Quote:

Please read the Questions 101 that Praetor linked.

Most of the important stuff was passed on via the register dump included in post4 ... what other information did you have in mind?

01-29-2006, 10:46 AM	#1 (permalink)
drdisko New Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: UK Posts: 14	Hangs in XP not in Mandrake?? I have an oldish PC, with an Athlon 1600+. matsonic ms motherboard The OS was XP until about 1 year ago when it began to freeze or hang. a friend recommended mandrake as he could seen no reason why it should be hanging.I have used Mandrakefor about a year but I am not getting on with linux at all. I have a copy of XP professional that I am trying to install but midway through installation it starts to freeze again. What could possibly be the reason for this. It didn't freeze once during the last year on Mandrake

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01-29-2006, 11:46 AM	#2 (permalink)
drdisko New Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: UK Posts: 14	ok so i've managed to fully install but windows freezes after maybe 10-20 mins everytime. What can I do to find out whats faulty.

01-30-2006, 07:03 PM	#6 (permalink)
drdisko New Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: UK Posts: 14	trying to do that now

01-30-2006, 07:27 PM	#7 (permalink)
drdisko New Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: UK Posts: 14	having trouble creating boot disc with memtest on, do i just burn a blank cd with the .iso on??

01-30-2006, 07:36 PM	#8 (permalink)
drdisko New Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: UK Posts: 14	did memtest from hcidesigns and there is no probs flagged can't run the one linked on this thread, also scandisk finds no problems.