On Nov 25, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Brian Christmas wrote:

>
> G'day listers
>
> Further to the saga of the Sawtooth I donated to the neighbors kids
>
> I've managed to borrow a 21" monitor that fits the existing connector,
> just to check the graphics card, but now the sawtooth is kernel
> panicking after bootup. Sometimes it gets as far as the desktop before
> the kp. If  it gets to the desktop, we get the spinning wheel and no
> mouseclick response.
>
> The boot screen and desktop are VERY large, and I suspect the kids
> have set the resolution to a quite low setting. Perhaps that's why the
> 17" monitor became defunct.
>

No. Lower resolution would not affect a monitor.

> Would this be the reason for the kp's, and is there any way of setting
> the resolution to a higher value before the kp.
>

No. MOnitor settings would have nothign to do with the kp

This sounds like hardware.

Does it do this in safe mode?

Mount it in FW target mode and see what the panic logs say.


-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs



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