I've had the same type of problem before, turned out I had a bad memory chip installed. Try running memtest from a live cd--both Knoppix and Mepis both offer the option at bootup. It solved my problem once I removed the bad chip. Randy Clarksean writes: > > I must be out to lunch ... as I am having serious install problems on one > particular set of hardware. I am beginning to think the hardware is jinxed > for some reason. > > Configuration: > > Iwill dual processor board (Xeon) > [DP533 board, Intel 7505 chipset] > RAM: 2 GB (2 sets of 2 different brand 512 MB sticks) > 2 IDE drives (80 GB IDE0 and 120 GB IDE1) > CD Burner > Plenty of cooling fans, etc. > No SCSI hardware, etc. > NVidia AGP card (128 MB) > > I have tried installing the following Linux Oses with little success > > RH9 - crashes during the start of the install process > RH8 - will install, but when updating with apt-get ... gnome starts to > crash. > Suse9 - crashed during install > Fedora Core 3 - crashes when starting to install software > (formats drives, etc. fine; have done md5sum check on iso files) > (crashes on different files; says issue is media, lack of space, > or hardware related problem) > (set bios safe default values) > > Has anyone ever had such difficulties in getting a system to install? I > REALLY need this system to get up and running. Some suggestions on possible > trouble shooting tips, or ways to get past these crashes would be greatly > appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > Randy > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list