Fedora on an AMD Athlon 64 (3200+) machine

[Joel Gomberg]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
>> I have a Targa desktop with this processor,
>> and I have always had problems installing Fedora x86_64 on it.
> ...
>> I'd be interested to know if anyone has had similar problems
>> with this CPU, or alternatively had no problems installing Fedora.
> 
> I asked this some time ago, and as far as I can see
> only got replies from people running the i386 version of Fedora-6.
> 
> Yesterday I installed the i386 version on my Athlon 64 machine,
> and it seems to run without any problems at all -
> I compiled kernel-2.6.18.2 in a few seconds,
> whereas trying to compile the same kernel under x86_64 
> caused several crashes during the compilation, 
> and when it was complete the kernel only ran for a few minutes 
> before crashing.
> (I had the experience trying to re-compile the latest Fedora kernel.)
> 
> I suppose it is possible that these problems arise from some fault
> in my computer, but it seems much more likely to be a software problem.
> 
> So I'll ask again if anyone is happily running the x86_64 version of FC-6
> on an Athlon 64 machine?
> 
Yes.  I have an Athlon 64 (3200+), a Gigabyte motherboard, 
and an Nvidia nforce3 chipset.  I have run FC5 and upgraded 
to FC6 with excellent performance and absolutely no problems 
with the x86_64 architecture.

-- 
Joel