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Have you tried to add "nomodeset" to the grub boot command ? <BR>
Example: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.2-126.fc11.i586 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/root rhgb quiet nomodeset<BR>
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On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 09:35 -0700, Paul wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: <A HREF="mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com">fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com</A>
> [<A HREF="mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com">mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com</A>] On Behalf Of Patrick
> O'Callaghan
> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:47 PM
> To: <A HREF="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</A>
> Subject: Re: Can't boot!
>
> On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 21:25 -0400, William M. Quarles wrote:
> > S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
> > > On Wed, 13 May 2009, William M. Quarles wrote:
> > >> The computer seems to "die" right about when X is about to start.
> > >
> > > Can you try <ctrl><alt><F1> (and F2, F3, ...) to see of console
> > > login is on?
> > >
> > OK, this PC is playing mean tricks on me. The past 10 times
> I've tried
> > to boot it, the boot has failed, and also, the keyboard stops
> > responding (so <Ctrl><Alt><anything> doesn't work). This thing is
> > behaving very inconsistently, because it just did a successful boot
> > and I was able to log in.
>
> I'd say do a thorough memory check. The brief check done by a
> BIOS at boot time is not exhaustive enough and sporadic
> memory errors can cause all kinds of random woe. I recently
> pulled two 1GB sticks from my machine because memtest86+
> found problems (actually I think the problems are with the
> motherboard slots rather the chips, but it amounts to the
> same thing). The machine lost half its RAM but now it works
> flawlessly.
>
> <A HREF="http://www.memtest.org">http://www.memtest.org</A>
>
> poc
Are you by chance using some sort of nForce motherboard and DDR2 RAM? A lot
of them simply don't push enough juice to the RAM to support 4 sticks
without fiddling with the BIOS settings. Most often, reducing the RAM speed
(i.e.: from 1066MHz to 800MHz in my case) and increasing the voltage being
sent to the RAM slots does the trick.
- Paul
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