On 4/18/06, Stephen Liu <satimis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Marcel, > > Tks for your advice. > > > > Yes, this is a new system. Which memory setup did you refer? TIA > > > > The memory timing settings. CAS/RAS settings. > > I can't find the above settings on BIOS of the motherboard. > > ASUS A8N-VM socket 939. > > After having tried FC5_64 (FC5 32 bit also failed) several days without > success, it came to my notice that most likely is the onboard LAN > chipset causing the PC hanging. > > Onboard LAN > eth0 (nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller) > > Without setup network connection the OS can be played around, > starting/closing applications. Whenever I tried setting up broadband > connection the PC immediately hung even before its completion. I > tested it several times. > > I ran Ubuntu 5.10 Live CD successfully on this PC. Broadband > connection can be setup. How long can I browse Internet depends on > luck. Finally the PC also hung. > > I'm now searching around on Internet trying to find out a solution. > > Any advice would be appreciated? Have you checked to see whether there's a newer BIOS for this motherboard? I'm not running into this problem on the MCP51 motherboard that I have here (although its not the same one as yours). -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
