Before you pass on to the next item, the Linux issue appears shortly...
I've just put a box together (AMD 900, nine hundred and mumble mumble MB RAM).
IDE Channel 1: HD0 (master) and CD/DVD-RW (slave), cable detect IDE Channel 2: HD1 and Zip100 - both slave - not cable-detect. UW SCSI card and 2 × UW SCSI HDs ATI Rage 128 AGP card Internal hardware modem, PCI (can't unforget which one)
In addition to the onboard USB ports there is a twin-port USB PCI card and a four port USB hub (camera cable and scanner), the four port hub attached to an onboard port - I'm suspicious of all these, but they've been working OK until today - that is, for a bit less than a week.
The OS in the HD0 caddy is (was?) Win 2000 Pro SP1, and noticing I hadn't done so, I fed it SP4.
So it fell over, and after five or six minutes trying to boot, I get the BSOD. Recurring.
So, I thought - feed it the Win 2000 CD and try a repair, or if it comes to it, a reformat and reinstall...
It loads files, then falls over. Recurring.
So, I thought, it's set to load from CD first so I can run Knoppix - I'll format C: with Knoppix and reload Win 2000.
Oh yeah?
Knoppix begins well enough, just as usual. It gets to 'Starting X11.....' and the screen goes dark and the pretty text winks on, then it goes dark again, then it winks again, and again, but only to four or five places - not recurring...
We finish with:
Retrying with Server Xfree86(vesa) . Retrying with Server Xfree86(fbdev) Error: No suitable X-Server found on your card.
And the CD drive was dead so I had to power off, switch on again, remove CD and shut down again.
Has anyone got any suggestions? Is there anything in the configuration which I might have got wrong? I need Win 2000 for beta-testing Zetnet's mail and news handling program.
I'd also like the computer to work, as the one I'm on (PIII-450) I've built for a friend whose PI-90 is rather sick.