[GRLUG] IBM NetVista not booting graphical environment

[john-thomas richards]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:51:32PM -0500, john-thomas richards wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:39:28PM -0500, Rick Vargo wrote:
> > Try going into the BIOS setup and enabling the onboard card.  Then see
> > if you cannot run through setup with the monitor hooked to it.  This may
> > be something where setup is seeing the onboard card as the primary even
> > though it is disabled in the BIOS setup.  Once you get it up and running
> > and confirm the NVIDIA card is working then you can try disabling it again.
> > 
> 
> Excellent idea.  I will try that.  Thanks.

The monitor is still going into sleep mode and the system becomes
unresponsive.  I went into the BIOS and turned off the power management
features.  No dice.  I have a hard time believing all three machines
are faulty.  :-(
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john-thomas
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