javajunkie wrote: > With a P5B-vm MotherBoard with 4 GB installed and either a PAE enabled > kernel or a x86_64 anaconda install and the memory remap feature enabled > in the BIOS (this is necessary to get above 3gb on the motherboard), my > system either crashes during boot or is very unstable (such as text from > the initial stages of the boot superimposed over the graphical x86_64 > boot and the fan suddenly running at top speed and never stopping). You have of course used memtest86 to check all that memory is good, haven't you? (Do I understand that with non PAE kernels the system is stable?) > This motherboard is said to work with a win64 system... That doesn't imply as much as one might like. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail: james@ | Practically any car advert, for example, shows you that aprilcottage.co.uk | if you buy this car you will get so lost that you end up | parked (well, no. The word here is "stuck") on a mountain | in Monument Valley. -- Telsa Gwynne