Short System Summary:
GF3 Ti200
Athlon 1 Ghz
512 ram (original)
SBLive! Value
Redhat 8.0 and windows XP (I only use XP when I have to, like for some games
)
It started about nine hours ago.
First, I noticed when I tried to mount my vfat and ntfs drive, it did not recognise any hda partitions at all. I could only see the partitions / and /boot on hdc.
So I restarted. It recognised all the partitions properly, and everything went fine until X tried to start up.
I get the nvidia splash screen. I stays longer than usual, then it flickers. Then it flickers some more. Eventually it briefly flickers by the bash login prompt, wich I can type in while it's there. I takes a few cycles to login as root and change the runlevel.
After that, I've got a fully functonal system without X.
I did try with recompiling and reinstalling the nvidia drivers, but it didn't help.
None of the logs I checked showed anything odd either. The system log just showed everything as ok up until the change in runlevel or system restart.
I haven't tried changing from the nvidia driver to nv in the XFree86.config(that's it's name? I've forgot
)
I've pretty much ruled out hardware failure, as my card works fine in windows.
Please, any help appreciated! Sorry, don't have any logs right now, as I'm in windows atm. I don't think Lynx could handle the boards
Any particular logs that might be interesting, I can get next time I enter linux...
Really hate when things like this happens.
And no, I didn't fiddle with any system settings recently or when this happend.
Thanks in advance!