[Novalug] it stopped working (booting)

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

What happens if you boot with "noapic nolapic" on the command line?

Perhaps you should reset the BIOS to default settings and recustomize them?

JIM

Jon LaBadie wrote:
> A year ago I inherited my mom's Compaq 1630NX.  I upgraded it to
> a dual core x64 3800, bumped ram from 0.5 to 2.5 GB and added a disk.
> More recently (a month ago) I added a PCI-E video card.  No other
> HW changes since then.
>
> Been working fine with Windows XP (home) and my added OpenSuSE 10.2
> and Fedora 8.  At least until last evening.  Now neither linux, nor
> their "failsafe" modes, nor two live CD's I've tried will boot.
> WinXP still does however.
>
> Here are the last 4 messages from a Fedora 8 boot.  It hangs thereafter.
>
>   ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:09.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
>
>   CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0000 0000 0000 0004
>
>   Bank 4: b200 0000 0007 0f0f
>
>   Kernel Panic - not syncing: cpu context corrupt
>
> OpenSuSE 10.2 puts up a splash screen that I can not escape quickly
> enough to see the messages.  However the failsafe mode shows text
> and ends with this line corresponding to the first line above.
>
>   PCI: In IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 0000:02:09.0.
>   please try using pci=biosirq
>
> I tried the suggested boot option and it stopped at exactly the
> same point.
>
>
> Do the messages suggest something specific to anyone?
>
> I'll break out my ultimate boot cd and run memtest86 overnight,
> but this doesn't seem like memory does it?
>
>
> jl
>