FC5 Installation Killing Computers

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I have a most distressing problem.  I am a faculty member in the computer and information sciences department at a liberal arts college. 

 

We have a lab with a number of computers with two AMD 32 bit CPUs and a few computers with two AMD 64 bit CPUs.

 

Two years ago we ran FC4 on both types of these computers with no problem.  However, attempting to install FC5 has killed several computers.  We have now burned out two of the 64 bit computers and two of the 32 bit computers.  Generally, the behavior is that they go a ways into the installation process and hang.  After retrying the installation another time, the computer is basically dead; when I tried a Knoppix CD-ROM one of them could not get past the screen telling you to press a key to boot Knoppix.  One of the 64 bit computers went “poof”, and I smelled smoke.  It is,of course, completely dead.

 

I’ve used Google to see if I could find out about a problem to no avail.  We’re getting pretty desperate.  Can anyone offer any guidance?  At this point, we’re even afraid to try another distribution.  We’re starting to install Windows to get the remaining computers working.

 

I’ll be glad to provide more details if they will help.

 

Thank you in advance..

 

 


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