Overclocking and LM 10.1

[Bird222]

I don't know if this is the proper forum for this, but here goes. Btw, I am new at linux (well sorta, tried before but never managed to use it much). I am trying to install Mandrake 10.1 on a celeron 566 o/c to 850 (voltage bumped up to 1.75 from 1.5). I get to the initial graphical screen where you choose to install/upgrade. After I choose install, a progress bar goes across the screen and then it seems the system crashes. I just get a black screen. The cd-rw drive with the linux disk in it flickers a few times after the screen goes out and then nothing. I really am not sure if it is the cpu or the video card that is flaking out. I would lean toward the cpu/memory, but I remember having problems when I tried to install Mandrake 8 awhile ago with my TNT 16 meg card. I replaced that card with a TNT 2 Ultra 32meg card and LM 8 installed fine. So I figured something was wrong with the card, even though windows ran fine with it. Just as a test, I went through a WinXP install with the TNT 2 card and things went fine. Is there something about Mandrake that doesn't like Nvidia cards? Does LM 'work' the system harder than windows does? What could be the problem here? Here are my system specs.

Abit BX6 motherboard
Celeron 566 CPU O/C to 850 with an Abit Slotket
256 Megs of SDRAM (4 64 meg sticks, one in each available slot)
TNT 2 Ultra 32 meg video card
soundblaster AWE64 ISA card (no speakers connected)
SMC 1211TX NIC 10/100
Western Digital 40 gig ide HD
1.44 3.5" floppy
Lite-On 48x cd-rw

TIA for any thoughts or suggestions.

[Bullitt]

With hardware that dated, I had a similar problem with a win2k install. (But wait, this is a linux forum, you say....bear with me). There was a freak-assed BIOS option in this version of award BIOS that had something to do with the type of OS that was going on top of it. I cant remember the exact terminology, but it was either turning off an option in the ide controller section to a non-windows setting (at the time, FAT32 was the best it would do and it would fail on an NTFS install). Once I switched to that non-standard/non-windows option, the NTFS install went smooth as friggin silk. It was dated hardware, 700Mhz AMD based compaq but after 6 hours trying to format/install the thing I finally found the option.

I dont know if thats any lead, but check the bios for some weird-assed setting that may affect your drive controller or something to that effect.

[Bird222]

You may be on to something with the hard drive. I backed down the cpu to stock and I still had problems installing WinXP. I went back to trying to install LM 10.1 and it tells me that it could format the root partition. The system stayed up all night, so I guess its stable, but now I have to figure out why LM can't format the root partition.