Saravana Kumar wrote: > Craig White wrote: > >> You can install Windows on that system but it will prove nothing - even >> if Windows fails. >> >> My understanding is that your purchase of that machine was driven by the >> fact that it was certified to work with RH 9. The fact that it cannot >> pass the memtest.exe of RH 9 is proof that the system, with present >> components is substandard and not up to specification. Period. If the >> system wasn't newly/recently manufactured (i.e. used/reconditioned), it >> may be as simple as a BIOS upgrade. >> > You're exactly correct i purchsed the machine because it can run on Linux. > >> Installing Windows is a peripheral issue - you did not purchase it for >> use with Windows, Windows may incorporate some undocumented fix for >> substandard hardware and what on earth are you going to use to >> adequately test it to determine failure? This too is a waste of time for >> which you should be compensated. In the end, installing Windows will >> neither prove nor disprove anything that hasn't already been proven. > But, after supplying it with adequete driver(SCSI) windows can't detect > the drive. I couldn't install windows. Also, i have made clear to them > that even if was successfully installing windows i want to run Linux and > only Linux on it. I tried with windows only for their sake. Wasted time is > already gone. I want to prove them that if Linux doesn't work nothing > will. >> >> Basic Philosophical logic here: >> 1- System is certified for use with RH 9 >> 2- Boot RH 9 disc - execute memtest >> 3- system fails - system is substandard and does not meet >> specifications/certification. >> 4- Windows is irrelevant to discussion > Right. As today is sunday i can't catch them. I think in a day or two i > can ask them give compensation or just return the system back. >> Craig > > Thanks again, Hi, Now the problem is over. I called up the engineer again and tried with installing windows(with 3 driver disks). Windows after installation was working fine. Before this what the engineer did was to flash the BIOS. There was an BIOS update in the HP site. This i missed:-( After windows, we tried with Linux. Installation went on smoothly. Then tried copying *big* files, that too had no problems. Now the system is working fine. Still i didn't migrate any data to it. But i think there wont be any more problem. Thanks for all who followed up. Hope this will be helpful for others. Since this was a new machine i never even thought of the BIOS update. But BIOS was the bottleneck. Again thank you all for spending your time(especially craig) and sharing your knowledge. -- Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. --- Linus Torvalds -- SK -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
