Roman
The same thing happened to me about 2 weeks ago and I still do not know
what caused it and also like you I re-installed.
Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 8:06 AM
Subject: [newbie] The Deadly Black Screen at KDE
> Does any one know why the screen goes completely black with sporadic
> flashes just before KDE was to start up? Here's' what happened:
>
> 1. I was emailing friend in this morning while in Windows NT4 using
> Netscape
> 2. After sending the email, I logged out of Netscape
> 3. While in Windows NT4 SP5, I selected Start->Shutdown and Restart
> Computer
> 4. My computer rebooted to lilo and after 5 seconds went to begin
> loading Linux Mandrake
> 5. When it came to the time where KDE was to start up, the screen went
> black with sporadic flashes of color. I could only use CNTRL-ALT-DEL(I'm
> familiar with the 3 keys) to stop this, so I reinstalled.
>
> Was that wrong?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Roman
> (Learning is a never ending process)
>
>
