On Saturday 10 July 2004 10:38 pm, Joseph Gregory Croes wrote: > Hallo, stephen. > When the monitor turns black I do Alt_Ctrl_F2 and I cant get a console or > terminal to login. > I do not have Ideas. > > Thanks stephen > PS: Here is my spec again: > > Intel D850MV motherboard > Pentium 4 Processor 2.0 GHZ 478 Pin > Geforce 3 TI-500 64 MB Grafics card > Nec Multisync FE950+ CRT monitor > 358 MB Ram (rimm) > Adapted 29160N U160 scsi controler > IBM Ultrastar 36.4 GB > CNET network card > ADSL starbridge modem > Linksys wrt54G router > Mandrake 10.0 Official Power Pack ( downloaded from mandrake club) > Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse >
Joseph: Hmmm... based on what I see above, what you have _should_ work. My understanding is that black screen and no terminal means that there is a serious misconfiguration somewhere in X. (It could also mean that there has been a hardware failure, but (a) it worked during the installation and (b) it works during the initial part of the boot process.) Did you ever suceed in getting your system to boot to your desktop? If so, then the prime suspects would be any changes that were made to the system subsequent to that boot. If not, then the problem is with the Mandrake installation. In an earlier post, you said that you were using the nvidia drivers. Are you sure? Were these part of the PowerPack installation, or did you get them elsewhere? Did you ever get an nVidia splash screen? Some things to try: 1. Try some of the non-default options at boot. We might get some hints there. 2. CD1 can be used as a rescue disk. Take a look at the options there. One useful one that may work is to upgrade (or even install). Skip the stuff about formatting and package selection, but redo the hardware selection bit -- in particular, be very conservative about X and video-related settings. Use a low screen resolution -- say 800 x 600 x 16 bit. And tell it that you want to boot to a text screen. If that works, you can try moving to a graphical screen with the command startx. If that is successful, then the matters of booting directly to a video screen, and getting better resolution later. Oh, please reply using plain text only. HTML-formatted mail is not considered acceptable here. -- cmg
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