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Old 04-15-2006, 12:39 PM   #1
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No Picture, onboard video and geforce fx 5500 vid card on system, using geforce??

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my motherboard has 2 video cards on it. built in 8mb ati rage pro(not using), and NIVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 256mb Video Card(using) i get a picture up untill the end of boot up. then its just black. when i first installed redhat shrike it had me configure hardware and i did not see geforce fx 5500 so i selected geforce fx. is there anyway to fix this issue?

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Old 04-17-2006, 02:56 PM   #2
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Try setting the driver to generic to start and then once you can get into linux install the offical NVIDIA linux driver from the NVIDIA website.
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