[GRLUG] IBM NetVista not booting graphical environment

[Michael Mol]

On Nov 20, 2007 7:55 PM, john-thomas richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> 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.  :-(

Have you tried physically removing the NVidia card from the system?
What about booting in console (text) mode?



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