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bouncer5
February 23rd, 2009, 10:57 PM
Was hoping to give new life to this machine any idea how well it would work? Last time I checked I had trouble getting anything apart form windows running on the thing.
mpsii
February 24th, 2009, 12:02 AM
Not sure why this system would cause issue. Onboard sound, lan and video worked as of 7.10.
bouncer5
February 24th, 2009, 12:11 AM
Fedora the screen garbled up during the live run, and installed became imposisble :(, And with ubuntu it did something like that whilst loading the orange bar, Half the screen garbled up and it didnt seem to do anything after that.
abn91c
February 24th, 2009, 12:17 AM
try mandriva 2009, it worked fine on my old 400mhz celeron, PC100 motherboard generic Pc I had. It ran KDE 4.1
bouncer5
February 24th, 2009, 02:22 AM
The thing is I can run it on a old 350Mhz Pentium II with 64MB of ram, Quite slow but still installable and runs.
Mordac85
February 24th, 2009, 08:25 PM
Sounds more like your CD or the drive may be having issues. If you can't boot to a known good live CD there's few places for the actual issue to be.
bouncer5
February 24th, 2009, 09:59 PM
Got 8.10 to install quite nicely so all nice and dandy.