Linux problems

[Captain Beer]

I used to use Mandrake 10 as my OS on my Celeron 800.

But I got a new computer last year when the Celeron gave up. Only problem is it won't run Linux, have tried Mandrake 10, Ubuntu 32bit, Ubuntu 64bit, Ubuntu Live. Each one gives me different errors. Mandrake tells me there is no CD to install from (have tried about 3 different ones) and Ubuntu gets far, but then gives me a lot of strange charecters on the screen.

PC spec:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 939
MSI Mobo
1GB RAM
Seagate SATA HDD
ATi x200
LG DVD RAM
Philips LCD

Could any of these be causing the problems?

Cheers

 

[thisgeek]

www.memtest86.org - Download the 2mb odd ISO and boot off it. Let it test your ram for a few passes.

 

[nic777]

Sounds like a faulty cdrom to me - any error messages that appear?

also: http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2005/12/msg00377.html

 

[Captain Beer]

Cheers will try the mem test. I also thought it could be the DVD drive, but I have a CD Writer and it won't boot from that drive either

 

[web]

two problems.
Just went through all of this with a turion 64 and ati 200 something or other .
Mandrake did not like the cpu, ubuntu does not like the ati card although there is a patch you can download check there forums ended up using suse 10 even the 32 bit version installs no problems.