I have a new computer with some problems. When I got it, I powered it up, popped in my bootable debian cd, and it all went just fine. For the record; I've installed debian on 10+ machines, mostly old machines less than 200MHz cpu.
Then I powered it down for the evenning, and the next morning I had some problems when I turned it on, the machine seemed fine, but the monitor didn't display any image, it was on on indicated by the blinking standby lamp, it was kind of like the machine didn't manage to push the monitor to start. I know that the monitor is fione, because I'm using it right now. I tried several things, tryed powering down, using the boot floppy, but it didn't help, I tried all imanaginable, then after xxx tries it suddenly worked. Well, I thought that something very exotic had happened, and that I just had to do a fresh install, and so I did. But it happened again the next time I turned on/off, but the monitor works fine when I reboot(init 6). After another xxx tries the monitor came "online" again, still don't know the exact circumstances under which I manage to start it again. Then, on this another fresh install the picture started to behave very strange, every letter got it's own color! And only parts of the screen was updated(try fdisk under this circumstances!). Then all the letters started to apair like an alphabetic soup(looked like the installation was in some odd east-european language). So I got myself into the BIOS, reset the factory default, didn't help, even had this alphabet-soup in the bios!!! Anyone experienced this before? Motherboard:Chaintech 7aja2-100, via kt133a chipsett. CPU:duron 850 MHz. HD:western digital 40GB/7200 RPM. Videocard:CardExpert nvidea tnt2 32mb AGP TV-out. monitor:hansol 710A. Thanks ae roy
