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TheGreatPoo:
I saw in the help section of the Linux setup program where I can type in "linux mem=128M" to bypass the RAM test.  I did this and the computer screen went blank.  Dunno.  I won't be installing Linux on this computer any time soon anyways (it's the computer at my work).  Thanx for you guy's help!

voidmain:
Linux doesn't do a memory test, that's your BIOS doing the memory test.  The "mem=xxx" parameter is a way to specify the amount of RAM you want Linux to use (not more than what you actually have it will surely lock up).  Normally Linux will detect and use all available RAM.  

I have an old machine with 128MB of RAM with crappy on-board video that shares the system memory.  Well I think because of this Linux was only detecting and using 64MB.  I added the "mem=120M" parameter to my lilo.conf (you can also pass that on the LILO or GRUB command line) and then it used 120MB of RAM as I had the video card configured to use 8MB.  

Now most people said they didn't have to do this with shared video cards so I must have been a special case but it allowed me to override the amount that it actually detected.

pkd_lives:
Goto the mandrake errata page, you may be suffering from need of a patch. I had this but on an earlier AMD model, but the bug sounds the same.

rtgwbmsr:
PKD is right. I also had a problem installing Mandrake, and the patch fixed it.

Have Fun
Dustin

TheGreatPoo:
Which patch do I use?  I went to the page in question and found threee patches ready for download.  I didn't see one that fit my particular application (but I'm new so I am probably wrong).  Thanx for the help!!!  :D

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