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horton30
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 Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 3:42 am Post subject: Super frustrated |
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| I just built an amd 64 3200+ machine. I installed gentoo on it with some porblems but I was able to research the forums to find all the answers. I got it up and running and finally instaleld gnome and got gui, but i rebooted my computer about 15 minutes ago and it really hit the fan. I couldn't log into gnome it would just hang out the splash screen. it kept freezing. i finally was able to get into it as root and i tired to open up firebird and it took like 20 seconds...this is absolutely ridicoulous...any suggestions on waht could be wrong |
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smith84594
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 3:55 am Post subject: Re: Super frustrated |
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| horton30 wrote: | | I just built an amd 64 3200+ machine. I installed gentoo on it with some porblems but I was able to research the forums to find all the answers. I got it up and running and finally instaleld gnome and got gui, but i rebooted my computer about 15 minutes ago and it really hit the fan. I couldn't log into gnome it would just hang out the splash screen. it kept freezing. i finally was able to get into it as root and i tired to open up firebird and it took like 20 seconds...this is absolutely ridicoulous...any suggestions on waht could be wrong |
What specific problems did you encounter during the install? It might be something that happened then that's causing all these problems. |
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horton30
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| Oh nothign real bad, just stuff i had messed up setting up grub and /etc/fstab....the system was running amazing until today. I dont know what happened, i seroiusly am so frustrated right now with it. i used the genkernel if that helps? i was a n00b with linux |
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ikshaar
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Hard to say anything without any info... but typical problem could be DMA mode of harddrive...
to see if mode on.
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Dracnor
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| Does it lock up while at the terminal too (i.e. no gui)? I've had lock-ups before related to my cpu overheating. |
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tihkal
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I just built an amd 64 3200+ machine. |
Could the lock ups be hardware related if it's a new build. Something not seated properly or just not quite compatible*.
Do you have more than one OS on the box to eliminate the hardware from the equation?
*Don't you just love hardware vendors that build on the edge of tolerances so that some hardware just wont play in certain combinations  |
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horton30
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| no its not hardware i dont htink...it was runnign compeletely fine...no its not overheating either becuase its liquid cooled and i can monitor the cpu temp all the time |
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