Rapidweather
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Posted: Aug. 17 2004,01:32 |
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The details on your computer's processor, memory, other OS's installed and running on the hard drive might be helpful. I have found some machines are not
able to run the DSL 2.4 kernel very well, expecially if no swap partition and limited
memory are the case. Such boxes run the 2.2 kernel nicely, such as found in
Mandrake 7.2 (hard drive install).
Right now I am using 128 MB ram, 200 MMX processor, and DSL does everything
ok. On the hard drive, I have Mandrake 7.2, and it really flies along on this machine. But it only has Opera 6.03, whereas DSL (my remaster) has Firefox 0.8.
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I have also had problems with machines that have a hard drive that is trying to fail,
and machines that are overloaded with cards, hard drives, etc. for the power supply. Your machine may need to go into the shop to see if any of the hardware is giving out. In those cases, my OS's would act up and make me wonder what was going on... Had to replace power supplies, etc.; on AT powered machines, the power cables plugging into the motherboard were burning, several contacts showing evidence of that.
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Lots of interesting things to consider when an OS does not work as expected, especially if it changes from one day to the next.
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