[plug] Gigabyte Motherboard

[Jon L. Miller]

Gary,
I guess the real question would be can you bootup from DOS, or Windows, if so then you'll need to check out the HCL listing, if you cannot install especially Win95 or Win98 then I would start looking into the memory chips, is the CPU in good working order, etc.  One of the main reason software doesn't work is because the hardware isn't coming to the party.  Is the mboard compatible with the PIII-450, etc.


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On 7/21/99, at 9:22 PM, Gary Allpike  wrote: 

>Hi All,
>
>I'm trying to install debian slink on a machine with a gigabyte
>motherboard - however it doesnt want to play - it will either give an
>error decompressing the kernel and halt, or just keep rebooting.
>
>I've tried booting off floppy and CD - both methods fail the same way.
>
>The system is a PIII-450 with 512MB RAM
>
>The install CD and floppy work fine on another non-gigabyte machine
>
>regards
>
>Gary Allpike

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