Hi Guys and Gals, A couple of days ago I installed Suse 7.0 (October 2000 Linux Format mag CD). During installation I could not choose my monitor (NEC Multisync 3D) as it was not listed. Chose another NEC monitor instead, and reset Resolution and Colour depth to appropriate 800x600, 256 colours). As I was downloading from 'Net on other PC at the time I failed to pay full attention and missed resetting Horizontal/Vertical refresh rates to correct settings.As Suse is now Plug and Pray I wasn't given the option of choosing my graphics card. As result got very bad screen on boot. Shutdown PC, reinstalled Suse with correct video details. On boot sometimes screen would display (regardless of OS - ie Win95, Mandrake etc), other times not. Finally no screen display, not even Bios boot info. Sometimes got one long beep on boot. Checked Monitor on other PC - worked no problems. Examined graphics card ( Viper 330 8mb AGP2). Appeared to be some burning (?) on back of card on 2 chips - may be just burned dust. Neither HDD or Floppy (tried floppy boot) starts up, so assumed problem was damaged graphics card not recognised during boot. Installed a NEW card ( Eagle TNT2 M64 32 mb AGP2). Still no data on screen - now get 1 long and several short beeps, hard drive operates and appears to go through boot process (tried floppy boot of Mandrake 7.0 - which operated OK before problems with Suse). Motherboard is Gigabyte GA-686LX with PII 233 cpu. Manual states that there is only one beep (Post Beep)code in the Bios - 1 long and 2 short beeps- video error has occurred and BIOS cannot initialise screen. Any suggestions appreciated. I don't want to try the Viper or Eagle graphics cards in my other PC for fear of damaging it if there is/are problems with the card(s). Other option is a visit to a PC Tech - last resort. Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
