Shawn wrote:
>   Alright, I'm out of ideas.  I cannot get Linux to load on my desktop!  I'm sick of Windows, and want my Linux desktop back!!!!
>   I've tried RH9, Slack9, Mandrake 9.2.  All to no avail.  I can get it installed with no errors, warnings or messages.  Reboot, lilo comes up.  Select Linux, and it starts to load, then chokes almost right after the "loading linux" so I can't see what/where it exactly fails.  Screen goes blank, HDD spins a little and then nothing.  I have to do a hard reset or power it off to reboot.  At first I tried dual booting, Windows would come up okay.  Then I tried only Slack, and it chokes the same.
> 
>   Heres the system:
> 
> MSI 845PE Max Mainboard
> P4 2.53 GHz
> 1 Gig DDR Ram (don't recall speed)
> 40 Gig Maxtor EIDE HDD (did also at one point have an 80GB WD w/ 8MB cache)
> GeForce 4 ti4200 (dual output card)
> SB Live 5.1 sound card
> Linksys 10/100 NIC
> 
> Any ideas?  I'm drawing a blank on what else to do.  I'm going thru withdrawals, without my fvwm2 and Slack fix I'm being dummified with Windows...
> 

Pull the sound card (and anything else that isn't needed for the install).
After things are installed and running you can re-insert the hardware
you want.

You might want to pull some ram chips if you can.

(Note that I haven't had any problems with the hardware you list, but
you never know).


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