<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">My original message:</font>
<br><tt><font size=2>I've just experienced one of the most unnerving situations.
I've a custom built machine that WAS running the following:<br>
ECS GeForce 6100SM-M mother board<br>
AMD 64 X2 5600+<br>
4GB RAM DDR2 800 Mhz<br>
nVidia GT7300 PCIE 256MB video card<br>
2 - SATA Hard drives; 1 - 320 GB WD and 1 - 500GB
Seagate<br>
550 watt Antec power supply<br>
Fedora 9 x86_64 with all of the latest patches<br>
<br>
As my Xmas present I upgraded the machine to:<br>
Gigabyte MA790X-DS4 mother board<br>
AMD Phenom Quad core 9550<br>
8GB RAM DDR2 800 Mhz<br>
Retained the video card from above<br>
2 - SATA Hard drives; 1 - 500 GB Seagate and 1 -
1TB Seagate<br>
850 watt Antec power supply<br>
<br>
I attempted to install, from the same DVD used on the original machine,
Fedora 9 x86_64 with 4 failures at just about the same place while installing
packages. I used my i386 Fedora 9 DVD and all went well during the
install so attempted to do a upgrade to x86_64 without luck. I did
a test using my Fedora 8 x86_64 DVD and it installed perfectly. I
then attempted to do a upgrade to Fedora 9 without any luck (it appeared
to fail at about the same place). I then downloaded and burned another
copy of the Fedora 9 x86_64 DVD, checked it and attempted to do another
install and one again it failed at about the same place.<br>
<br>
What could possibly be happening? I since reinstalled Fedora 8, but
that has reached it's E-O-L. Should I just attempt to go to Fedora 10 x86_64?
Should I have entered something in the boot parameters concerning
the additional memory?<br>
<br>
Any help or advice would be great!<br>
<br>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Here's what we found and how it was
found:</font>
<br>
<ol>
<li value=1><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Even after the installation
of Fedora 10, this machine continued to have issues until it got to the
point where it would only boot after being powered off for several hours.
Because the entire machine had been purchased (over a period of 6-months)
from the same store (this is not a plug about buying everything from the
same place), I packed up the computer and went to the store's service department
and we performed the following:</font>
<li value=2><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The motherboard and all of the
expansion cards were removed from the case.</font>
<li value=3><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The hard drives and power supply
were left in the case.</font>
<li value=4><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The CPU and cooler were removed
from the Gigabyte motherboard and the store's CPU and cooler were placed
on my motherboard - all worked well.</font>
<li value=5><font size=2 face="sans-serif">My CPU and the store's CPU cooler
were placed on my motherboard - all worked well.</font>
<li value=6><font size=2 face="sans-serif">At my request the store's CPU
cooler was replaced with my Zalman CPU cooler - nothing worked!</font>
<li value=7><font size=2 face="sans-serif">It was determined that there
was in fact a motherboard issue. The store's tech came to this conclusion
because the store's CPU cooler has a 3-prong plug, but the Zalman has a
4-prong plug. The motherboard was given a RTV and was replaced by
a MSI that was the most compatible (they had no more Gigabyte boards in
stock at that price point).</font></ol>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Everything is now working as intended!</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks,<br>
Gene Poole<br>
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