[ILUG] A frustrating system (hardware?) failure: any tips on how to resolve

[FRLinux]

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Michael Conry <michael.conry at gmail.com> wrote:
> Makes sense (though it's a pain!)
>
> The bit that puzzles me most is how the system managed to complete the
> installation of Debian without crashing (which involves lots and lots
> of disk and network I/O, plus reasonable CPU load for uncompressing),
> and then crashes repeatedly when running the actual distribution.

Indeed, may i suggest you try booting the installed OS with noapic,
noacpi, nomsi

I'd be still very inclined to flash the BIOS. It could be that the
newer kernels are finding bugs that were not hit with your previous
distribution on this BIOS (yes, i have witnessed that too...)

Steph