Is 12.04 compatible with the Athlon XP-M processor?

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Having tried on an off for several days on and off to install 12.04 unsuccessfully I today actually got a useful message during installation when it froze "stopping CPU interrupts balancing daemon" There the system froze. The processor is a 32 bit AMD Athlon XP-M in an Asus Laptop. Looking at the versions of 12.04 available for download I notice that AMD64 processors need different downloads to Intel processors and have different checksums.

Need some expert advice here? Is 12.04 a non starter so far as my particular processor is concerned or will the AMD64 (which is presumably designed for a 64 bit work? Does anyone know?

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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 26 '12 at 10:07

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The Athlon XP-M is a pretty old CPU and while it supports PAE, the rest of the system (motherboard, etc.) may not.
Ubuntu 12.04 has a PAE-only kernel; please try installing Xubuntu 12.04 or Lubuntu 12.04 instead.

answered Jul 26 '12 at 10:07

ish

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 26 '12 at 04:57

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That processor is supported by the 32-bit version of Ubuntu. But if it booted at all, you are already using the 32-bit version of Ubuntu, so this is a differn't issue you are having. :/

answered Jul 26 '12 at 04:57

user72421

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Is 12.04 compatible with the Athlon XP-M processor?

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