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[Sloan <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Fischer wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, BandiPat wrote:
>   
>> Michael,
>> My first suggestion would be that it's a good time to update the video 
>> card as well.  I'm guessing that card will not display the resolution 
>> that monitor needs.  Also, a newer card, even just a 9600 or 9200 will 
>> give you a smooth setup for not much money and very good performance on 
>> your setup.
>>
>>     
>
> Thanks. I had an old Radeon sitting in a drawer, so I threw that in.
>
> Rebooted, and saw the bios, grub, and the splash screen for picking
> the kernel. Hit enter just to get on with it, and then the monitor
> went back to its misbehavior about saying it was not running
> at an optimum resolution.
>
> I then put back the old monitor and went into a 2 hour fight to
> get the thing to boot properly. Its an oldish machine which
> has been showing this kind of ill health for years. I'm hesitant
> to ever reboot it for that reason. Can take 10 tries, with full
> power off from the back of the box. Its still not recognizing
> the mouse now... *sigh*
>
> Time to drop a bunch of money on a new machine, and pray I can 
> figure a way to save all my files.
>   

Why not just rsync all the files of interest over to the new box? The
integrity of the filesystem is really not connected to the display issues...

Joe
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