----- Original Message ----- From: "Hervaen" <hervaen@xxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 12:33 PM Subject: [Asus p5a] impossible to install fedora-core > The hardware is; > > Motherboard; Asus P5A ATX socket 7 > CPU; K6 2 amd 500 mhz > DD ide udma 13 Go > graphic card; Woodoo 3000 AGP > sound card; sound blaster 16pci > I have this motherboard (BIOS revision 1007) K6-3 400 Mhz Quantum 20 Gig HD NVIDIA TNT2 model 64 graphics Soundblaster PCI 512 So far it has worked flawlessly. Graphical install worked fine, no crashes in 2 months. > After probing graphic card, monitor and mouse the screen is all black and > stop, impossible to have the install screen > > sometimes, (1 time on 20) I can install fedora but after the reboot I have a > kernel panic > > It seems that the problem comes from udma and I have to change something in > Bios but after surfing on the web since several days I don't find anything I just rebooted my system and went into the BIOS and chose "set BIOS defaults" and although my USB stuff no longer worked, the system still booted fine (I'm running 2.5.22-1.2149.nptl kernel). This hard drive runs in UDMA mode without any problems. You could try disabling DMA mode for the hard drive in the BIOS, and seeing if that stops the kernel panic. I'd also pull the sound card and see if that helps. I'd also suspect the video card. Do you have another to swap in to test? Have you tried a text mode install rather than the graphical install? Sorry if this didn't help much, but at least you know one person is running this motherboard without problems.
