Well, I'm stumped. And yes, I did search the forums and I couldn't find anything on this one.

I successfully used my Mandrake CDs to install Mandrake on my Dell Latitude C840 but I'm having problems on my home system.

It's homemade with the following stats:
P4 2.4C @ 3.3GHz (280FSB)
4x512MB Corsair XMS PC-3500CL2 memory
2x160GB Seagate SATA drives in RAID 0
Radeon 9800 Pro 256mb
Creative SB Audigy 2 Platinum Ex

It currently has 4 partitions:
266GB NTFS (Main drive)
2GB NTFS (Windows SWAP)
30GB Ext3 (Linux Main)
2GB Linux Swap (Linux SWAP)

So here's what happens:

I start up the system with the linux CD in it. It boots into the Makdrake installer and the first screen pops up where it says to press F1 or just press enter.

If I press enter, the screen goes blank and just stays that way. If i press F1, I get the text menu for choosing what kind of installation I want but if I press enter or vgalow there, I get the same thing. I can only assume that the expert graphical interface would have the same problem.

So, what is the possible problem? It looks like a problem with the graphics system. I need to turn off my OC as well as that might help but I can't imagine how it could be causing this problem.

Any ideas? I really wanted to get it installed tonight so I'm annoyed

Type

Linux vga=0

at the text prompt.

There's a known problem with Mandrake > 1 GB RAM in terms of framebuffer trouble with certain video cards (from errata)

Rebooting now......

First off, thank's a ton!!! That worked!!

4 Things:

1st: The l in Linux has to be lowercase

2nd: It worked, but is it supposed to look like crap? I assume yes.

3rd: Is X going to work with XFree even with 2GB of RAM? I mean, is this problem going to carry over? Should I switch to a different distro?

4th: Now I have a problem with my RAID driver I'm using the built in SATA raid on the Intel ICH7 chipset on my Abit IC7-G motherboard.

Anyone know what driver I want to use? Thanks!

Damn.

Just read all the posts on how to get ICH5 support into my kernel.

Damn. I'm going to sleep for now. I'm gonna buy a $40 hard drive tommora......

forgive me for not directing this comment at your question but...

NiCe RiG!!

Hehe, thank you It's all watercooled too with UV cathodes. Waiting for 1 more cathode and then I'm gonna get a few pics.

Did I also mention that all of the water has green UV reactive dye in it and a dual 120mm fan with UV reactive blue fans on top?

I built it for Doom 3 and HL2. I gets over 21,000 3DMarks on 01.

How much did it cost...this computer is powerful. I wanna build a new computer..