supraway
10-31-01, 05:20 AM
Aiiiiight, I have a little question. I run a dedicated game server off of a Duron 800, 256 megs ram, Abit KT7-E motherboard. For about 2 months now, I have been running Redhat 7.0. I got a little bored last night, and decided I would upgrade the video drivers. Well, somehow (not exactly sure how) -- I damaged X-windows. I decided I would make some necessary hardware changes while it was down, and after that, decided to format and start clean with Redhat 7.2. I had some troubles getting the hard drive to re-partition, and ended up doing a low-level format. Now, once I finally got Redhat installed, I booted up. Right after initializing the kernel, and just before initializing the swap partition, it gives me huge memory dumps. The changes in hardware I made were -- dropped a worthless 2.5 gb hard drive, changed from a 3com 3c509 ISA network card to a generic PCI 100mb/sec card, and added a Soundblaster 16. Do you guys think this is some sort of incompatability with my system, a hardware fault, or do you think it has something to do with the hard drive?