[CLUE-Tech] AMD64 MB recommendations?

[Mike Staver]

>>I just ordered it for a friend, and will be building the box for him on 
>>Tuesday, so check back with me if you want and I'll let you know how it 
>>works.  It does have an Nvidia chipset though as this guy is a windows 
>>only user.  If any of you have Suse 9.1, or any other distro working 
>>good on an nvidia based board, let me know! The Suse 9.1 installer just 
>>locks up on me before I can even hit F2 to see it posting info, so I 
>>don't even know what's hanging it. 
> 
> 
> Well, I'm not much interested in running Windows only on it... is this
> SuSE 9.1 for x86, or their 64-bit distro that you're having problems
> with? 

My box at home is only 32 bit, Athlon XP 2500+ on an Nforce2 board. When 
I try to boot off the 9.1 CD (disc 1) I just see the little Suse lizard 
guy and a progress bar, which promptly hangs at about 5% across the 
screen.  Hitting F2 does nothing, and neither does Alt-F(1-10).  I 
thought I had a bad CD, so I tried booting off the 32 bit DVD that came 
with it, and I get the same thing.  I then tried a new CD rom drive of 
a different manufacturer, and again, the same thing happens.  I was very 
disappointed because I was looking forward to getting 9.1 running at 
home.  I should also mention I have an SATA hard drive. which I thought 
kernel 2.6.x supports if I'm not mistaken.




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