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Some updates to this problem: |
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- I've tried booting the PC with various life CDs or DVDs I have amassed |
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at home. The results are ... funky: |
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-- My self made Gentoo 2008 live cd works. Managed to repartition the |
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disks, tried a 1st shot at raid setup - no error messages. |
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-- all other linux variants experienced a hard lockup. black screen, |
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nothing to see, internal dvd drive is running -- don't react to |
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ctrl+alt+del or poweroff, |
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need to turn off the power with the power switch at the back (!). |
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Somewhat frightening, actually. |
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The DVD drive in question is an internal IDE DVD --- I've found that |
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this MOBO (Intel DR35JO) seems to have problems with IDE DVDs (this was |
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recommended to |
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me because typically SATA DVD drives are often less supported and IDE |
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drives work better :-(). |
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So I will try again with an external USB dvd writer. |
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Another possibility: In the BIOS I found the SATA mode switch - you can |
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switch between "IDE", "Native" and "Raid". Selected is "IDE". Is |
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"Native" better or worse here? |
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Mystified... |
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- Wolfgang |
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Wolfgang Liebich schrieb: |
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> Hi, |
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> I've bought a new private computer because my old machine is nearly 10 |
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> years old already and deserves a little rest now. |
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> I've bought it without an OS, and tried some linux install CDs and dvd's |
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> I have. With some worrying results: |
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> - One installDC stopped cold when booting --- nothing worked anymore, no |
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> ctrl+alt+del, no alt+sysrq, no power off button --- needed a hard reset |
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> with the true power off button. |
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> - A gentoo live DVD I got with a computer magazine showed similar |
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> behaviour when I (foolishly) tried to start evmsn: the program started |
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> scanning for disks and locked up HARD: |
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> -- no ctrl+alt+backspace, no ctrl+alt+del, no at+sysrq+b, no power off |
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> button. Needed to poweroff the machine. |
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> The computer is an intel system, with a DQ35JO motherboard, two SATA HDs |
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> (I want to setup a raid system), and a PATA DVD drive (no internal DVD |
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> writer, I have an external one already). |
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> I found pointers to some troubles with this motherboard - is this a |
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> problem for the install-CD, or should I only better not use evms? |
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> - Worried in Vienna |
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> -- Wolfgang Liebich |
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