MDK installing problem strange kernel panic

[Denis]

Hi,

I have an installatin problem on my new PC

I have changed my motherboard (Gigabyte GA-7ZX-B)
I have one 128Mb SDRAM 133Mhz on it
and one AMD athlon 850 Mhz

I have the same Hard disk, same IDE CDROM...and so on
and I had Linux installed before reformatting the whole hard disk
on my old motherboard+CPU+RAM

when i try to install Linux via normal sequence (on a mandrake 7.2)
It fails when I choose the language at the begining !
I get an "error opening file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/Security Policy"
"Glib warning, Perl warning..." and finaly a Segmentation fault
with a message such "seems like memory is missing as the install crashes"

then I tried to install by hitting F1 at the boot prompt of the install CD
and I tried with the following command line : text expert
then I can reach the formatting stage and after that I get a dump on the screen
with the error "killing interrupt handler"
"Kernel panic : Attempted to kill the idle task"
"in Interrupt handler - not syncing"

then i tried this one again, by desactivating the BIOS feature i don't need
(USB, serail, AC97, parallel and of course the PNP OS feature !)
then i tried text expert again...without much success

then i tried to add some arguments.. like mem=128M idebus=33 ide0=noautotune
..no more success !!

another curious thing with my PC....may be a hint for some experts here...
I tried to load the tombsrt linux (on a floppy) it was ok
I tried then to format the whole hard disk, it was ok too
but when i tried to do the badblock check i get a similar dump with a kernel
panic on my screen !!

so i thought my hard disk may be damaged...i checked it with windows and
scandisk (a minutious one) and it reports no error on the disk !
I even tried after that to install linux on another disk (I just have one at a
time in the PC !)
so ...welll....it's crazy !!!!
I can't understand !!

if someone here does, please let me know !!! I'd really like to have your
comment on this problem !!
..I think I'm not the one earning a GA-7ZX and a 850MHZ AMD CPU !

pleaaaaaase, help !

Denis.

[Craig Kelley]

Denis <sesa...@club-internet.fr> writes:

I'd say there's a 90% chance that you either have a

1) Bad CD Rom install disc (try it on another machine)
2) Bad RAM (does Windows crash on this machine very often?)
3) Some other bad hardware

It's probably 1 or 2, but I've seen it all before... (a bad PCI
bridge once did what you are describing to me -- bad video cards do it
too, but usually not until you fire up X11)

--
It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a slot on your ATX videoboard
Craig Kelley -- kell...@isu.edu
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