[HLUG] HELP

[Julian Robbins]

Hi Roger

I can't offer any particular advice for this as I haven't use those
processors you mention.

However, it may be an issue how the bios is setup which could be the
trouble possibly.

Also if you have done so, may be worth upgrading your bios firmware as this
could help too.

I'd say that for particular processors to not be supported by Linux would
be really very very unusual, so I am guessing that they're may be some
other type of issue which might be the  underlying cause of the problem.

Can you send a screenshot of how far it gets on installing or booting
please?

Thanks
Julian

On Thu, 12 Aug 2021, 10:39 Tom English via Herefordshire, <
herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

>
>
> What distros have you tried?
>
> I run Debian on an old AMD FX (The FX replaced the Phenom 2) without any
> issues.
>
> On 2021-08-11 11:03, Roger Irwin via Herefordshire wrote:
>
> > Hi Guys,
> > Yes I will become a member of HLUG.
> > I really want to move away from Mr. Microsoft's broken software.
> > However I am having extreme difficulty in persuading any Linux OS to
> accept
> > my AMD Phenom II six core processors.
> > Again, I think that I might need the help of a Guru.
> > Regards
> > Roger Irwin
> > Ross on Wye
> > 01989 564164
>
>
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