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Try noacpi yet?

noacpi doesn't work.

happydog500 we're missing something basic quoteA few years a go when I first tried Linux all the distros worked.
Now when I need one, it doesn't. What can I do to get SuSE up and running?) Something has changed and it's probably a hardware piece (video card, hd, sata card, or something. Make sure all the hardware is shut off that can be, printers, scanners, etc. As far as I know most people except for some of the "old timers" say the distros are getting better.

I too had some issues installing Linux on my laptop, but really I should have looked FIRST at the HCL to see if MY (YOUR) platform and its configuration match the hardware compatibility list (HCL). As a former Novell "Yes" certified tester I know that the HCL's are accurate. Good luck and reply if i CAN HELP AT ALL.

Does an ECS K7VTA3 Motherboard count as hardware?
I know the posts talk about disabling AcPI in SuSE install. I also disabled it in the BIOS. Win XP won't boot with it like that (everything is set to Always on in XP). It has to have Power Managment enabled to boot.

I wanted to have it off in the BIOS when I did an noAcPI install of SuSE.

I will go home and try another install with my TV card out and a different video card.

Before going too far use fdisk and check the format of your hd. If you can get the Suse disk to get to Grub I believe you can use cfdisk from "repair" and check the partitions on the disk. If you do replace the video card try and find one of about 32 meg or so. But if you have tried to install a few different distros you may have to delete partitions and start over. From any dual boot I've done (only six), XP was already installed and I let Suse dvd do the install. I decided the partition size on one notebook with no problem. I did have one that I had to delete the partitions in and reinstall XP and then install Suse but on that one someone had tried to install a bunch of distros before I got it so I don't know what had happened. The partitions didn't look out of order, they just had something that wouldn't let you write to them.

I installed it in text mode. It worked. Would like to have graphical but at least I have Grub as a bootloader

I was just wondering do you have over clocking enabled in your BIOS, either CPU overclocking or RAM, by the looks of it your CPU asks for exces power and the system cannot provide it. As osbie said you can try the ACPI=off option at start up. See what happens.

Sorry i missed the but as i said get into the BIOS and look around.

After a couple months I finally got it to work. During the install I chose F3. Changed the resolution to, "VESA." It installed fine after that. I did have to install with ACPI disabled also.