Scrambled screen, then no Fedora

[dexter]

2010/6/3 Anne Wilson <cannewilson googlemail.com>:
> I'm not sure what's happening on my new laptop - the F13 one.  I had quite a
> few windows open. when suddenly the screen scrambled - it looked as though
> holes were punched in every character.  The wallpaper and plasmoids were
> unaffected.  It held like that for a few seconds, then dropped out to a black
> screen with a white cursor.  It wouldn't accept any input from keyboard or
> mouse.
>
> I powered off, waited a while and powered up again.  It got to the f-infinity
> buble completed, and stuck there.  Thinking that it may be a kernel update (I
> usually reboot when I see one, but could have missed doing) I tried the
> previous kernel.  Exactly the same.  f-infinity.  That's all.
>
> Any ideas as to what could have gone wrong?  Without a clue it's difficult to
> decide on a plan of action.
>
> Anne
Remove rhgb & quiet from the editable boot prompt or press esc to see
the boot text, will bring more clues.

...dex