Re: It's Alive! Xeon W-1270P Has Booted!

On 2/16/25 11:22 AM, -hh wrote:

On 2/15/25 15:18, Physfitfreak wrote:

On 2/15/25 11:15 AM, Farley Flud wrote:

My fantastic Xeon W-1270P machine has finally booted.
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My Xeon machine still crashes when I install linux mint on it. It gets installed each time, no problems there, but about one minute into using the computer it freezes and screen, computer, keyboard, everything becomes non-responsive.
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If yours hasn't crashed, then either your cpu is an improved one, or there's something about mint that messes mine up.

 Sounds like one needs to do a backup, wipe & reinstall to troubleshoot.
 

When I acquire the knowledge to carefully install gentoo on my Xeon machine, I'll see whether linux can be used with it or not.

 Or there's MS-Windows, of course /s
  -hh

It has absolutely no problem with Windows. I've tried a few different HDs in installing linux mint on it. Never worked, or works fine but for about a minute or two. Something builds up and at some point system crashes.
I don't like to go back to Windows on that machine. Even with 24 gigs of ram it is slow as hell to come up. I literally go get some stuff done in the house and come back to see if it has finished booting up. And often times some of the icons are still "coming up" and a couple of cats have urinated at the screen :) Quite ironic.
I'm not exaggerating.