ifincham
Thanks for the tips. I tried them in this order.
1) I removed the mylex scsi raid adapter and the power from the ibm scsi harddrives.
2) I replaced the harddrives with an actively working IDE hardrive running linux on another computer.
3) When I booted up the system. Linux did not boot to this comptuter at all.
4) I then attempted to install linux and freeBSD on this IDE harddrive.
RESULTS to TRIAL 1: Same Results. Hangs during installation after partitions have been formatted, installation image transfers to harddrive, installations begins, whole system freezes.
5) I then suspected it was the 1gb of ram.
6) I replaced that 1gb of ram with 256mb from the computer that possesed the working IDE harddrive, and reattempted to install the same group of oses.
RESULTS to TRIAL 2: Same results.
I am suspecting that it is within my motherboards bios, or just a malfunctioning set of motherboards altogether.
Note: I have two Identical systems with the only differing factor is the color of the cpu heatsinks, and both are expiriencing the same problem.
What do you think?
Thanks
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