[GRLUG] IBM NetVista not booting graphical environment

[john-thomas richards]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:06:29PM -0500, Scott Huffman wrote:
> Do you really need the AGP card?  Try physically removing it.

I did. 
> 
> 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.  :-(
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