Oh my God I can't believe I didn't think of the video! I've been thinking it was the ram because i recently changed it, then changed it back when i noticed that it wouldn't work, what put me off though it that i can't boot into Memtest86+, it'll just reboot the computer! I haven't tried it again with the original RAM in yet though.
Basically the machine works fine with XP, *buntu 9.04, Slitaz, parted magic, TRK, and a bunch of other distros, but any *buntu 9.10 just won't work. I'm trying to get MythBuntu 9.10 on there but it's been oddly difficult. Yeah my BIOS has a basic GUI like most others, there's no mouse in BIOS but I considered that normal. The Motherboard (K8NS-Ultra 939) doesn't have any on board video that could be interfering but i'll see if I can tweak any video settings in BIOS anyway. There's probably AGP settings there to fiddle with i guess. I could pick up an old AGP Nvidia card off ebay if all else fails - I don't know maybe i could try an alternate install too? On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Grant Parnell <[email protected]>wrote: > Mike wrote: > > > > Ok I don't get this, I've got the same mobo on two machines and it'll > > work one but not the other. I've tried diff ram and hdds and still > > same result > > > > I try to boot into the live cd select English, then it will > > Load the glowing icon and dump me at a prompt that flashes, and it's > > got some instructions on how to use sudo I can see inbetween flashes > > > Sounds like a video hardware fault to me. Have you tried other LIVE CD's > and/or other operating systems? Does the BIOS have a GUI setup you can > get to? (ie a SETUP that uses GUI mode and a mouse). > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
