Subj : Re: ridiculous unstability with fedora 3......help me please !
To   : comp.os.linux
From : noi
Date : Mon Feb 28 2005 06:09 pm

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 02:33:42 -0800, ben thoughtfully wrote:

> I have been shouting at the damn thing for days, since I set it up. I've
> managed to re-install the operating system a good 4/5 times. It seems to
> have lasted one whole night without going down (so I'll see how things
> go).
> 
> At the moment I'm using gnome desktop, and I pretty much leave the machine
> logged on as root. Is there anyway I can just boot the thing up into the
> command line, but still have my ethernet devices etc. working the same way
> they did in gnome ? would it be any more beneficial to leave it in command
> line (performance...stability) ?
> 
> ben

I'm late to this thread so.... 

Did you Memtest86 your system memory before installing?  It could you
pulled the wrong stick.  Another poster mentioned hardware conflicts. 

Not all Linux distributions work on all systems.  You could try another
distro.

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