Freeze UP..HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nacum]

I am installing 7.3....Everytime I get to the point of Formatting in the installation my computer freezes...The bar goes a 1/4 of the way then my keyboard starts blinking and my mouse freezes..I have to reset everytime. I even tried reformatting and trying again and again...no luck...Can someone help me..
Specs:
TBird 1.4
60Gig Western Dig
512 Mem
Dvd
Cd Burner
3 Cooling Fans
ATI video card(7500 Radeon)


:confused:

[fancypiper]

I am assuming you are talking about Redhat as it has a recent release of 7.3.

Have you tried the text install? You may be able to see the error message(s) and get a hint.

Check the Online Resources for Red Hat Linux 7.3 (http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/rhl73.html) and see if all your hardware is compatable and if there are any quirks to watch out for.

Later installs have a bad time with any flakey memory, so make sure it is good.

Memtest 86 (http://www.memtest86.com/)

Large drives can take a pretty long time to format, but your description sounds like the install may be doing something strange. Specific error messages that are given is good info to post.

[nacum]

Ill try text mode..I did not get an error message while installing in GUI format..I will try new mem also....Strange though. I put my hard drive on another cpu(P4) and it installed fine...I am new at this so practice makes perfect...I guess..

[JohnT]

Some Athlon/Duron's lock-up at boot w/2.4x kernel
type this in the terminal

# cat /proc/cpuinfo

And if you don't see something similar to this
cpu family : 6
model : 6
stepping : 2


then you need to pass "mem=nopentium" to the 2.4.x kernel at boot time

If that doesn't work try here
http://www.linuxjournal.com/modules/NS-articles/lighter/6148s1.php