I just had trouble booting into linux. Tried several times, but kept getting a blank screen, so I booted windoze. I noticed that I saw nothing on the screen until I got to my windows desktop, so I tried booting to linux again, and waited for my hard drive light to stop. Then I logged in with a blank screen, called up X, and it came up fine. Any ideas why my startup screen is missing? I haven't tried going into my bios yet, to see if it comes up on the screen. I'm not sure I remember how to get out of the bios on this machine, so I'm a little hesitant to go there. I'm not sure how to proceed, so any ideas are welcome. Athlon 1.2G, Spacewalker AK12A motherboard, ELSA GLoria L vid card, Viewsonic A70 monitor, 256RAM. I've got another computer here, so I could try switching monitors (not tonight). Thanks. Greg
I would try a new video card maybee. Reset your bios to factory "safe" values. Do you see the bios come up on the screen at all? Does lilo/grub or your bootloader come on the screen? On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, avedis@ma.ultranet.com wrote:
I just had trouble booting into linux. Tried several times, but kept getting a blank screen, so I booted windoze. I noticed that I saw nothing on the screen until I got to my windows desktop, so I tried booting to linux again, and waited for my hard drive light to stop. Then I logged in with a blank screen, called up X, and it came up fine.
Any ideas why my startup screen is missing? I haven't tried going into my bios yet, to see if it comes up on the screen. I'm not sure I remember how to get out of the bios on this machine, so I'm a little hesitant to go there. I'm not sure how to proceed, so any ideas are welcome.
Athlon 1.2G, Spacewalker AK12A motherboard, ELSA GLoria L vid card, Viewsonic A70 monitor, 256RAM.
I've got another computer here, so I could try switching monitors (not tonight).
Thanks.
Greg
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No, nothing comes onto the screen until, in windows, my desktop appears, and in linux, didn't see lilo, I had to log in in the dark and call up an x session, and that comes up fine. I didn't try booting a clean dos disk, but I suspect I'll see nothing. G. Karl Hiramoto wrote:
I would try a new video card maybee. Reset your bios to factory "safe" values.
Do you see the bios come up on the screen at all? Does lilo/grub or your bootloader come on the screen?
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, avedis@ma.ultranet.com wrote:
I just had trouble booting into linux. Tried several times, but kept getting a blank screen, so I booted windoze. I noticed that I saw nothing on the screen until I got to my windows desktop, so I tried booting to linux again, and waited for my hard drive light to stop. Then I logged in with a blank screen, called up X, and it came up fine.
Any ideas why my startup screen is missing? I haven't tried going into my bios yet, to see if it comes up on the screen. I'm not sure I remember how to get out of the bios on this machine, so I'm a little hesitant to go there. I'm not sure how to proceed, so any ideas are welcome.
Athlon 1.2G, Spacewalker AK12A motherboard, ELSA GLoria L vid card, Viewsonic A70 monitor, 256RAM.
I've got another computer here, so I could try switching monitors (not tonight).
Thanks.
Greg
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On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 11:12:28PM -0400, avedis@ma.ultranet.com wrote:
No, nothing comes onto the screen until, in windows, my desktop appears, and in linux, didn't see lilo, I had to log in in the dark and call up an x session, and that comes up fine. I didn't try booting a clean dos disk, but I suspect I'll see nothing.
Have you tried power cycling? I used to have a video card which would have issues rebooting after being in a graphic mode, it would never switch back to a text mode. I always had to power cycle (hitting reset didn't do it) to clear the problem. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "Just wanted to let you know that pubexchange is down, something caught on fire inside the box." - Random problem ticket at work
ive seen this once or twice on my on hardware. to fix it i either unplugged/plugged the monitor (both power cord and to the video card), or swapped the video cards temporarily. every once in a while stupid shit like that works :) -mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl Hiramoto" <karl@zoop.org> To: <wlug@mail.wlug.org> Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 22:43 Subject: Re: [Wlug] hardware problem?
I would try a new video card maybee. Reset your bios to factory "safe" values.
Do you see the bios come up on the screen at all? Does lilo/grub or your bootloader come on the screen?
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, avedis@ma.ultranet.com wrote:
I just had trouble booting into linux. Tried several times, but kept getting a blank screen, so I booted windoze. I noticed that I saw nothing on the screen until I got to my windows desktop, so I tried booting to linux again, and waited for my hard drive light to stop. Then I logged in with a blank screen, called up X, and it came up fine.
Any ideas why my startup screen is missing? I haven't tried going into my bios yet, to see if it comes up on the screen. I'm not sure I remember how to get out of the bios on this machine, so I'm a little hesitant to go there. I'm not sure how to proceed, so any ideas are welcome.
Athlon 1.2G, Spacewalker AK12A motherboard, ELSA GLoria L vid card, Viewsonic A70 monitor, 256RAM.
I've got another computer here, so I could try switching monitors (not tonight).
Thanks.
Greg
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