Ok so I needed better HL2 performance.... I got some help enabling FastWrite for my video card. But ever since I added the options or what not to my configs my system RARELY comes up if I have to reboot. This morning I tried 5 times and couldn't get anything to come up. I had to give up and goto work.

Last night it was booting up so I changed to another term while it booted...once I did that the login prompt was there but X loaded up fine over the top of it before I could login. It didn't matter, X acctually worked that time.

But could by enabling FastWrite for my video and adding the enable code to my configs, could it be locking up my system?

Is there a way I can get back to my system in failsafe or something so I can edit the configs back to the default?

I don't know how to use grub to login to failsafe.

AMD 2600+ Barton
1GB PC2700
Geforce 6800 GT OC
Fedora Core 3 (2.6.10 kernel)

ok I had some options...These are close to the ones, maybe not exact...but could these have been doing it also?

option "NVAGP" "2"
option "RenderNL" "1" (or something close)

I added those lines to my xorg.conf file where my video driver was located. Could that have been causing my problem rather than FastWrite?