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I recently downloaded a copy of Mandrake move and I try to boot it up and it loads everything but after it says please wait my screen goes blank and nothing else seems to work. Does anybody have a clue what is going on?
If you can provide a little more details about your hardware setup, when it actually stops, like as in what do you mean everything loads? Does it seem to load and then trying to start in X, etc?
I have a K7S5a MB that does something like this. I have to turn APIC off in the bios to get it to boot. I see this with both MandrakeMove and knoppix as well.
It loads everything like it suppose to but never gets to the "X" Window. It loads all three parts and then it says please wait and then my screen blanks and my monitor light starts blinking like I don't have to computer on.
...not the APIC problem. I would suggest that maybe the refresh rate is too high for your moitor at the specified resolution. I am not sure how to fix this for MM if it is in the automatic stuff. You can try ctrl-alt-minus and see if other resolutions are available.
You should be able to get to a command line via ctrl-F2 (or the boot option). Then try looking at your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to see what it auto-detects.
You should be able to get to a command line via ctrl-F2 (or the boot option). Then try looking at your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to see what it auto-detects.
There is a setting for this during boot as well. [/B]
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