Hi, Last weekend I experienced problems with my home desktop. It locked up hard. When I power-cycled I remarked that some letters of the BIOS boot-messages were distorted. If I had these, the PC could boot but it couldn't go into graphics mode. Character-mode seemed fine. Now and then it worked for a while. I suspected the video-card. I took it out, and this morning I put it in a PC here at work. Now it seems to work OK ! It's running a few hours now without problem. I ran memtest for several hours with zero errors but the screen was distorted. With this I mean : the characters are there and readable but there were a high number of small vertical lines, few tens of pixels long, 1 pixel wide (I guess these numbers). The video-card is an NVidia GeForce 8500 GT, a PCIexpress 16x board. Next thing is the power-supply I'm going to investigate. Before it locked up, it had good voltages though. Anything else ? Thanks for hints. If it matters, the machine runs suse 10.2, but OS 11.2 is also installed and has the same problems. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org