-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: |On Thursday 30 June 2005 12:07, James Kosin wrote: | |>Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: |> |>Reuben, |> |>Sorry, just a few questions for you.... |> |>How much memory do you have in your system? | | |It's a dual processors (SMP) system with 1 GB RAM. | |>Which card is your BIOS set up to initialize and use as the primary |>display? (usually PCI or AGP are the options) | | |AGP First. I tried changing to PCI as the primary display, and it worked in |INIT 3 (I can get to prompt) although I still got the message about PCI |failed to initialize. It hungs when I tried to startx though. | |Thanks for your respond. | |RDB | RDB, (1) 1GB should be OK... Have you tried the PCI card without the AGP card? (2) OK, your being able to boot to INIT3 means that maybe the Matrox and NVidia cards are fighting with each other to allocate resources ... usually memory. What does your dmesg log or bootlog tell you? Try the output of lspci? James -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCxCKBkNLDmnu1kSkRArNXAJ4mGeRbqCRmxiAJlywj6DM15hHvGwCeMETW TKSO4TgDXvdDITX+UEqXyQg= =RDNw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----