On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 11:07 -0800, Les wrote: > Hi, everyone, > I am attempting to move my whole network to F8... Yes, I know that > something stable might be better, so lets skip those comments, OK? > > My current issue is with an HP Pavillion a8010n AMD K8 system with > Silicon Integrated Systems video on board, 1G of memory. It all seems > to work fine until (while following Finley's configuration site), I > install mplayer and mplayer codecs. At that point, when I bring up > video on the suggested bbc website, the system hangs. No error > messages, no control whatever, function keys will not return control, > and I have to power down to reboot. At this time I am running the > memory test on the system just to eliminate that possibility. Following > the pulse audio on going debate, I haven't seen anyone quite mentioning > the issue I am seeing. After this memory test runs, I will see if I can > see the error logs using chroot with the rescue mode of the F8 DVD. Any > suggestions on how to proceed will be gratefully accepted and followed. > > Regards, > Les H > A memory change didn't fix it. Reloading Windows changed the symptoms, but didn't fix it. Looks like something on the MB has died. New computer.... no problems. Microcenter offered a rebuilt IBM for 249 or so, so I picked that up. We are once again a proud house full of computers. Regards, Les H
