FC3 Won't boot after installation....sometimes!

[ajengli]

Hi everyone, I've got a strange boot problem . I have successfully installed (singal boot) FC3 on an old PC, spec is as follows:

Gigabyte GA-7ZXR mobo,
Athlon 800
GForce Ti 4400
Flatron L1710B screen - connected via the digital channel.
Seagate 10Gb HDD
CD

I had no problem with the install and when install complete did a reboot and loged in as root, used the KDE had a quick play - all seemed fine and dandy, logged out, then a shutdown.

I have just booted up the PC and it got as far as the 'INIT 2.85 booting' then the screen swithed off, the machine didn't re-boot and there was some disk activity (I think).

I then re-booted, and it wouldn't get pased the BIOS system check.

Rebooting again and it wouldn't do anything, not even the graphics card info telling me it's got 128Mb!

I then rebooted and it successfully loaded up and now it's working!

Could this be an nvidia problem? Anyone shed any light on this??

Regards

[loft306]

nope....1 year since i was on suse and it did that too sometimes....just a bit scarry but it seems to be fine on the next or somethimes a boot or three later...

[ajengli]

...update, since I typed that last post I booted Linux - it worked, then I returned to the XP session (switching using a Belkin KVM switch), did some other stuff for 10 minutes then switched back to the Linux session and the display had gone again!! ctrl-alt-del rebooted it, but again it wouln't get past the "INIT 2.85 booting" before the diplay switched off.