2008/9/5 Johnathan Hegge <johnathan.hegge@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Ugh, I was having the same problem with my 745. So, I drug out a USB > floppy and applied the latest BIOS -- going from 2.3.1 to 2.6.2 from > Dell. Whoops. > > Starting up looks fine, all services showed OK. Gets to local, X starts > and the box freezes at the spinning dots with a frozen mouse. Can't > break with Ctrl-Alt-Del or Ctrl-Backspace. > I have a couple of the optiplex 745 line running Fedora (from about 6 upwards to 9 currently) and have upgraded the bios from 2.3.1->2.4.1->2.6.2. At no point did I see the problems you're having. Makes me suspect you have a hardware fault somewhere - have you tried running memtest overnight? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines