[SATLUG] Getting frustrated with my new machine

[REYNOLDS, JEREMY (SBCSI)]

I've been out of the linux for a couple of years.  I just built myself a
new machine and I have tried installing numerous distributions and they
all seem to lock up after the install.  I'm not sure but I'm thinking
that my video card and or monitor might be causing the problems.  I have
a Chaintech Nvidia GeForce 6200 PCI Express video card and a Dell
2005FPW monitor.  My machine also has an AMD 64 bit processor.

I've tried the latest version of SUSE and it loaded fine but whenever I
tried to scroll in any program it would take about 30 seconds for it to
scroll.  I tried to update the video driver but the installation kept
failing and saying that I didn't have the source code for my kernel.

Next I tried Mandrake 10.2.  Again it installed fine but when it goes to
the graphical logon screen is freezes.

Next I tried Fedora Core 4.  The graphical install program just goes to
a white screen and freezes.  I did a text install that appeared to work.
When I rebooted my machine after the install the bootloader was corrupt
and just threw a bunch of 9s out to my screen and then locked up.

Does anybody have any ideas?  I'm not real picky about distributions
other than I like KDE and tend to do a lot of mutilimedia and web
browsing.

JR