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Old 03-21-2004, 06:31 AM   #1
weelyjim
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Distribution: SuSE 9.2, Mepis 3.3.1
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Unable to login SuSE


Laptop
Dell Latitude Cpx
P3 650Mh
256 Mb RAM
20Gb harddrive
CD ROM Modular Bay
DVD ROM Modular Bay
5.5Gb Modular Bay
31/2 Floppy drive Modular Bay
O/S SuSE 9 for home, fun and the Internet - Windows 2000 for college.

Hi Guys
HELP!

I got my laptop back from the shop yesterday, I had been having trouble with it loosing time in both O/S the tec guy at the shop said that after spending a week changing both CMOS battery and the mother board, and trying the hard drive in a different laptop the time loss was definitely a software problem, when I tried to run SuSE in shop it would not display the login screen after initial boot-up.

After i got the laptop home I tried to fix it, by using the upgrade option, and having had no success, I then backed up ever thing and reformatted the whole hard drive as FAT32 and reinstalled Windows, then repartitioned the hard disk and installed, and SuSE 8.2.
It installed with no problems, except that when it time to login, all I got is a blank screen,
I then tried with SuSE 9 with no success, now as far as I can see in the BIOS on the mother board I have exactly the same on-board graphics as the mother board I had before.

I don't understand why I can install Windows, but not SuSE.
Please, Please help.



PS
The clock now runs at the right time, so the guy was right about it being a software problem.
 
Old 03-22-2004, 02:01 AM   #2
weelyjim
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Tis me again.
Even stranger! when I tried using the SuSE 9, live demo disk, I had exactly the same problem, but I can use Koppix, and the Java Desktop disks with no trouble, odd or what.
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