On Tuesday 20 August 2002 07:50, Sean Goh wrote: > Hi guys, > I'm using 128 mb ram and when i boot up it says in parenthesis that > 64mb is shared. When i booted to windows, it says i have 64mb ram. So i > tot i'd try to disable the shared by going to Bios. After i exited and > lo and behold, i don't get no text on my comp...it's a complete blank!!! > Now i'm so frustrated with my new computer and i already took out the > battery for 30 mins and put it back in and still nothing!! Help i'm > really desperate! I just want to install Linux and all this had to happen. > > Regards, > Sean ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Out of Topic? What was the topic?
Sean are you using on-board graphics with this "new computer" and is it using 64 MB of your 128 as video RAM? If so you won't have a display if you don't allow the graphics chipset to use the physical memory. You have a couple choices; Disable on-board graphics processor and install an actual graphics adapter (video card), or; Increase the hell out of the available physical memory (if you're using any 9X version of Windows the maximum is 512 MB without doing some serious registry hacking) and leave the graphics chipset using the 64 MB it's set for while the system uses the rest for data manipulation other than display, or; increase the memory but buy a graphics adapter anyway. This is the option I would tend to follow since increased memory with any GNU/Linux distribution is always a "Good Thing." My true advice would be for you to take the box back where you bought it and ask them to do one of these things for you. You don't want an unusable machine and you don't want to hurt yourself; now do you? ;) What's the topic now? :-) HTH; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Suffocating together ... would create heroic camaraderie. -- Khan Noonian Singh, "Space Seed", stardate 3142.8
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