Things to try:
1. Remove all hardware unnecessary during the install.
2. Try a Linux install.
Kees
Keep locking up in the middle of installation at expanding files.
AMD quad, ASUS M4A785-M with 8 meg system mem and new 450 W power supply.
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Keep locking up in the middle of installation at expanding files.
AMD quad, ASUS M4A785-M with 8 meg system mem and new 450 W power supply.
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Things to try:
1. Remove all hardware unnecessary during the install.
2. Try a Linux install.
Kees
1. Download a Linux .iso (for example from http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download)
2. Burn it to DVD (it doesn't fit on a CD)
3. Boot from that DVD and install Linux. Does that fail also?
Kees
After several attemts to make a workable Ubuntu.iso, it booted up alright but not fully. Rebooted by itself in the middle.
Is there any perculiarities in AMD 64bit cpu?
To me this sounds like a hardware issue. While I don't see the rest of the system that 8 GB RAM seems to give folk grief as most don't buy the recommended sticks and some won't update the BIOS which may offer support for their sticks.
Try this -> Use one stick of ram.
Bob
No spontaneous rebooting or locking ups!
I will experiment it to increase mem - Any sdvice?
Any way to acivate and take advantage of 4 cores of cpu?
Your experiences of ubuntu, if any?
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