Abit KD7 - System Hangs, Scroll lock, Caps Lock lights on keyboard flash

[Randy Kelsoe]

spu at faith4miracle.org wrote:

>Then I proceeded to reinstall my operating system (Fedora Core Linux 1) The 
>floppy booted fine, resulting in the installation program starting off of my 
>external, USB2 CDRW drive. The installation proceeded normally until it got to 
>the part about "Formatting / (root) partition", then the system locked up, and 
>the above mentioned lights on the keyboard started flashing on and off, in 
>unision, just like in the first example. Then I got some error messages 
>about "Kernel panic" I then proceeded to try installing again, with the exact 
>same result, at the exact same point in the installation.
>  
>
Before you reinstall anything, you should get the Western Digital 
floppy, and run the extended diags from the diagnostics section. If you 
have a copy of memtest86, you should run that as well. Have you checked 
the MD5 sums on the Fedora isos? And, did you run the mediacheck on your 
cd's before starting the install? Your USB CDRW might be suspect, as well.

I have a WD 40G drive as my primary master and a Maxtor 40G as my 
primary slave, and I have had no problems.