Thank you for startinfg to read this, please continue to read this is you know something about X server and old motherbords like Intel440LX. This probleme I have had eate all me night sleep I realllllllllly need some help. So here it comes: I have this configuration Cpu 300Mhz PII, mainbord Intel440Lx, 324Mb Ram, Geforce 2 Mx 400 graphics card. It all worked nice until I reseted my bios. After that my Pc complecty locks away when I try to switch from grphics mode to text mode. I can't turn off my computer from X because it can't get to the console and it stucks in the way. Please , I really need help I am going to start climing the walls if do not help me. help help help __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com
On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 22:58, Calinoiu Alexandru Nicolae wrote:
Thank you for startinfg to read this, please continue to read this is you know something about X server and old motherbords like Intel440LX. This probleme I have had eate all me night sleep I realllllllllly need some help. So here it comes:
I have this configuration Cpu 300Mhz PII, mainbord Intel440Lx, 324Mb Ram, Geforce 2 Mx 400 graphics card. It all worked nice until I reseted my bios. After that my Pc complecty locks away when I try to switch from grphics mode to text mode. I can't turn off my computer from X because it can't get to the console and it stucks in the way.
Please , I really need help I am going to start climing the walls if do not help me.
help help help
Why did you reset the BIOS? Not 100% sure what issue this is, but have you have got AGP set in the BIOS? Including giving it an IRQ? Had issues when I didn't give my board an IRQ during post. Matt
Hello. Hmm, I presume you reset the BIOS because of an upgrade to that BIOS, or because of another issue that you thought the BIOS was causing. If X was working before you reset the BIOS, then it will probably work again. Firstly, try Matt's suggestion and make sure you tell the BIOS to assign an IRQ to VGA. Also, make sure to set the AGP aperture size to the maximum allowable, which may be 64MB, 128MB or 256MB on an LX based board. Another thing to check is a setting called something like Primary Video or Primary VGA. This will be a choice of PCI or AGP. Be sure it is set to AGP. I have an LX based board here with a PII-333, 128MB RAM and an Asus V7100 GF2MX card in it. It has SuSE 7.3 Pro, kernel 2.4.16 and Nvidia drivers v2313 on it. It gets reasonable scores in gears, and Unreal Tournament runs just fine at 800x600x16. I just thought I'd tell you that so you'd know your hardware is plenty capable of doing X and 3D. Bye for now, Stuart. -----Original Message----- <snip> Why did you reset the BIOS? Not 100% sure what issue this is, but have you have got AGP set in the BIOS? Including giving it an IRQ? Had issues when I didn't give my board an IRQ during post. </snip>
At 22:58 02/23/2002 -0800, Calinoiu Alexandru Nicolae wrote: /snip/
It all worked nice until I reseted my bios. After that my Pc complecty locks away when I try to switch from grphics mode to text mode. I can't turn off my computer from X because it can't get to the console and it stucks in the way. /snip/
I am assuming that you can't get into the BIOS setup routines. If you can, than disregard all the following and set everything to default values. I'm not sure what you mean by "reseted my bios". Did you try to upgrade the BIOS with new code from the manufacturer? Perhaps (only perhaps) if you read and follow the instructions VERY carefully, you can do it again and fix the problem. It is also possible that you can get a copy of your old BIOS from the manufacturer's website. You may have to use a different computer, if yours is not working, altho it seems that yours is "sort of" working. I hate to say it, but Anne Landers probably said it first: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Good luck! --doug
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Calinoiu Alexandru Nicolae
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Doug McGarrett
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Matthew Johnson
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Stuart Powell