<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">SInce that CPU was a current back in 2010-2012, I would wager that the 20.04/22.04 LTS versions will not work with this older mobo. I had success in a similar situation by loading Ubu 16.04 and then doing a dist upgrade to 18.04 with the kernel being held back. I haven't tried upgrading that PC to 20.04 yet.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Try Xubu 16.04 and see how you fare, unless you've done so already?<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron S.<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 4:30 PM William Park via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">If it's hardware:<br>
- remove and insert back RAM sticks.<br>
- remove and insert back all power cables to motherboard.<br>
<br>
If it's "modern" kernel:<br>
- try an old distro with old kernel.<br>
<br>
On 2022-06-23 15:30, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:<br>
> I have an older PC with an AMD Athlon II X4 635 CPU, and 4GB of RAM.<br>
> There are no expansion cards (PCI, AGP or whatever). The display is<br>
> on board with a VGA output.<br>
> Testing the memory passes with no issues.<br>
> <br>
> It was working at some point before I shuffled my home servers back in <br>
> January.<br>
> <br>
> Now that I am trying to repurpose it, I am not able to get it to boot at <br>
> all.<br>
> <br>
> Using Xubuntu 64bit 20.04 (also with 22.04), and even Finnix (Debian based<br>
> small USB rescue distro), it displays the initial boot stuff, then the <br>
> display<br>
> freezes, and there is nothing happening.<br>
> <br>
> When I removed the "quiet splash" parts from the boot command line, I found<br>
> the following errors:<br>
> <br>
> pci_bus 0000:02: extended config space not accessible<br>
> <br>
> Then a few more innocuous lines with 0000:00:14.4 without issues, <br>
> following by this:<br>
> <br>
> pci 0000:00:15.0: bridge configuration invalid ([bus 00-00]), reconfiguring<br>
> <br>
> Then the PC freezes at this point ...<br>
> <br>
> I searched various search engines, and there is not much there, apart from<br>
> trying pci=nommconf, which I did with the same results.<br>
> <br>
> Is this a hardware issue? If so, which component?<br>
> If it is not hardware, what else can it be?<br>
> <br>
> -- <br>
> Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br>
> <br>
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