Do you have any other gfx board you can put in ? Just to identify the source of the problem, ie. gfx board or mobo Alternatively do you get the problem when booting under a liveCD of some description
stu On 8/28/05, Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I've recently installed GeForce4 MX440 AGP 8x > >>into my gentoo box and got it working. > >>Bootsplash, opengl and so on.. > >>But one serious problem remains. > >>I have 90% chance to get garbled screen right after system reboot > >>when bios is starting hw checks. The problem goes away > >>after a random number of poweroffs. > >>Is there a way to fix this? > > > > > > If you've upgraded the bios on the motherboard, then trash the motherboard. > > It's not doing a proper reset to the AGP bus. > > > > Other possibility is the chip on the MX440 is on the slow side of things > > and the reset > > is too short for it. Generally, the chip will eventually get slower as it > > ages and the problem > > will get worse. > > Thanks for the hint Bob, > Upgraded the bios. The problem's still there:( > As I don't reboot very often I may live with this for a while. > Sasha > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't" --Unknown -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
