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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.. |
