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On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 23:41 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> Bad news... my 1.8 ghz P4 died recently and I'm now running on my |
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> emergency backup 6-year-old Dell (450 mhz PIII and 128 megs of RAM). |
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> Let's just say that editing 2560 X 1920 digital photos in GIMP is a |
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> "rather liesurely" process. |
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> Good news... Saturday, I'm picking up... |
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> 64bit AMD 3000BP [snip] |
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Right on. Gentoo on AMD64 is the only way to go AMD64, in my opinion. |
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I'm actually going to lean towards the hardware side of things. I found |
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these items to be EXTREMELY important when I was building some dual |
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opteron 248's with 8GB ram. |
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1) First thing you should do is update your bios |
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2) Use only RAM recommended by the manufacturer. It will probably be |
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considerably more expensive, but NOT doing so can lead to some really |
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weird problems later, resembling bad ram, but you won't be able to track |
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it down in the usual ways with memtest |
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I guess this one isn't hardware, well, it sort of is: |
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3) Do not run more than 3 or 4GB (I forget) ram with the installation |
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CD's, it'll eventually puke. If you have more ram, add it back later |
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once you have configured a kernel to support it. |
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