> 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 Turned out that the videocard didn't sit well enough stuck in the motherboard(I'll turn the head of the folks in that store!!). It work like a dream now. Thanks to all of you who answered. ae.roy
