computer shuts down
i built a coomputer, first time. loaded fedora core 6. ( bought it at a book store).
power supply, case, memory, amd athlon dual core 64 cpu, hard drive, dvd and mother board with on board sound and video are all new. when i try to log into the system with the gnome desktop it shuts off. it will run in terminal mode but being a greenhorn i can't do much from there. |
SlowCoder=no linux guru ... but ... I am experienced with hardware.
Since it's a new system, did you run diagnostics on it to make sure the hardware is sound? I recommend downloading memtest86 ( http://www.memtest86.com ) and running it to check your RAM. Also, if you can boot into runlevel 3 (command line), can you execute 'startx' manually? What happens? |
computer shuts down
if this makes a difference during boot up one line has an error.
Fatal: module ACPI_cpufreq not found. when i run the startx command i get this: Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1key giving up. xinit: unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. Thank you a hundred times for your interest |
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From what I know about your situation, I'd start by checking the video driver and settings in your xorg.conf file. In my experience, an improper or misconfigured driver could cause a computer to reboot spontaneously. This happens in both Windows and Linux. |
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