Unable to get into X

[Joe Zeff]

Something new has been added: I decided to try booting again to see if I 
could get directly into runlevel 3.  When I turned my desktop on, the 
fan was very noisy and it completely ignored the keyboard.  I turned it 
off, unplugged the keyboard, plugged it back in and it did the same 
thing.  It's beginning to look more and more like a hardware issue, 
possibly the video card, possibly even the motherboard.  If it's the 
motherboard, I'm not too surprised because it's about 8 years old.  And 
if so, at least it managed to hold out until I was able (maybe) to buy a 
newer and better one.  We'll see...