Ok, so here is the scenario. I have Windows MCE 2005 running great on this setup, but I want to move to LinuxMCE. I boot using the 7.04 Live CD and everytime about the third step in the install process my machine locks up and stops responding. It is a good 7.04 Live CD b/c I installed Kubuntu on my laptop using to test it out. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
Here is my setup:
ABIT NF-M2S Mobo
1 AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core 4200+
2 GB OCZ DDR2-800 Platinum Rev 2. RAM
GeForce 8400 GS
2 Seagate Barracuda 80GB SATA drives
1 Sony DVD Drive - don't know the Model
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Quote from: jakeh25ad on December 29, 2007, 08:30:36 PM
Ok, so here is the scenario. I have Windows MCE 2005 running great on this setup, but I want to move to LinuxMCE. I boot using the 7.04 Live CD and everytime about the third step in the install process my machine locks up and stops responding. It is a good 7.04 Live CD b/c I installed Kubuntu on my laptop using to test it out. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
I have exactly the same problem. Originally, I thought it was hardware related - tried new memory, reseated motherboard/memory, tried new power supplies, drives etc. Both the kubuntu live cd and automated dvd gave the same problem - hanging or random reboots. Then I tried the kubuntu-7.04-desktop-amd64 version instead of kubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386 that is described throughout linuxmce website. That seemed to get rid of the hanging and rebooting. Unfortunately, from what ive read, linuxmce only works with the i386 version.
I have exactly the same CPU.
a further update - i seem to have fixed the hanging issue by doing two things.
1. i updated my bios (which may or may not have fixed the issue)
2. i found some information at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=435075 which seemed to sort out my problem. i added the following bootup parameters : pci=nomsi irqpoll noapic acpi=off
shawnsdl Thanks for the help. It installed and is running Kubuntu with no problems after making the changes in the boot options.