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I have an old HP with ME installed. I had Fedora 7 working fine and decided to upgrade to 8. Downloaded to DVD on my other machine.(home built) and installed ...
  1. 01-22-2008 #1
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    I have an old HP with ME installed. I had Fedora 7 working fine and decided to upgrade to 8. Downloaded to DVD on my other machine.(home built) and installed seemingly w/o problems on the old. It starts, and as soon as I log in the screen goes dark and the lights start blinking on the keyboard. Have reinstalled and the same thing happens. Can anybody help.
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    Which Graphics Card do you have? Post your machine's specs here.
    Is Fedora booting up in Single User Mode?
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    Hi, thanks for the quick reply.
    The Graphics Card is Nvidia TNT PRO 32 MB AGP-4x card
    And yes I am in single user mode
    The Machine is a HP 9870 - came w Windows ME
    423 pin P 4
    384MB RDRAM (came w 12
    160 GB Drive
    As soon as I can afford new guts I'll get rid of ME, but for the time being I'm stuck with it.
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    Its a Graphics Card problem only. You have to re-install Nvidia Driver. Use vesa driver to fix GUI problem.
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    system-config-display
    Select vesa driver and restart machine.
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    Casper, thanks for the help.
    I don't know what happened - the code didn't work so I reinstalled the whole thing again and everything seems ok.
    I'm sure I'll screw it up some more down the road, but every time I mess up I learn something.
    Thanks again
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