After boot screen freezes (FC2) when installing

[mcallen]

Please help me out with this:
I 'm running FC1 on an Albatron mainboard with Intel chipset, Celeron 2,4ghz, 512 DDR Ram, ATI Radeon 7000 graphics card, ac'97 and 3com onboard card with NO PROBLEMS!
When booting the FC2 setup cd, it boots, then after /sbin/loader the graphics come up and the screen freezes!
Even the options nousb, noacpi, noapm, text, etcetc do not work.
It just freezes, input from the keyboard isn't possible anymore and I have to reboot.
The cd's are all good, md5sum's are all correct, no scratches etc.
Any idea's, I have run out...

[imdeemvp]

1. have you tried text mode installation?

2. some keyboard and mice can create issues...and could also be your video card?

[tashirosgt]

Which graphics come up? The login screen? Or does it freeze before that?

[mcallen]

If I type after boot prompt:linux text, the graphics still come up. I can't get the thing to install in text mode! The various options produce various screens but: Any graphic screen will freeze just after the "/sbin/loader line" dissapears and the next bit comes. That's where it all ends....
An other keyboard didn't solve it. Neither unplugging the mouse. Neither shouting or praying....

[tashirosgt]

I agree with imdemmvp that the video card (and its driver module) could be the problem. What kind of video card is it? (Ok, you said an ATI Radeon 7000 -- I never read the fine print.) A person with experience with that particular card may have a quick answer. Failing to find such a quick answer, you should post the video card section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. And check /var/log/gdm/:0.log (at least, if you use gnome) for error messages.

[tashirosgt]

usb or ps2 keyboard? That wasn't in the fine print, was it?

[imdeemvp]

tashirosgt,

believe or not sometimes it can also be the ram .....

[tashirosgt]

imdeemvp,
I believe you since it's happened to me. But I went to all the trouble of downloading memtest86+ and putting it on a cd. Then I read on this forum that memtest86 its on the Fedora Core install cd. Tell mcallen how to use it from the install cd. I'm still doing the memory tests by using the cd that I made. (There is memtest86 and memtest86+, which one in on the install cd?)

[mcallen]

Hello;
I will try memtest (And I know how it works !)
This is the output of FC1's Xfree86 log:
(II) LoadModule: "radeon"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o
(II) Module radeon: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 4.0.1
Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
(II) LoadModule: "ati"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ati_drv.o
(II) Module ati: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 6.4.18
Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6

Furthermore, the memory i've got is 400 DDR. This mainboard works with it, but at a lower rate:266 now after overclocking, should be 200.
The cpu is a 2.4 Celeron, overclocked to 2.8
I will set the bios back to ram 200 and cpu speed 2.4.
If that fails, I will try a nVidia agp 16mb card or a Geforce 32 mb agp card. (Both work on a SuSe linux system)
I'll be back...No time for this today...Thanks for any idea's, more are welcome!!!