Praedor Tempus wrote on Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 01:24:38PM -0500 :
> > > Anyone have any ideas?  How about on ways to save potentially useful
> > > debugging information?  The problem as it is now is that upon hard
> > > reboot, the logs are devoid of anything useful.
> > Can you ssh or telnet into your system from another PC? Chances are,
> > it's not the whole system that is locked, but only X, which of course
> [...]
> I wish I could.  My desktop is not networked.  My modem was killed by a 
> lightning surge (the mobo and CPU were also replaced), my PCMCIA to PCI 
> adaptor also appears toast so I cannot do a wlan connect.  Finally, I have a 
> useable ethernet card but no crossover cable so I cannot do a direct 
> connection that way.  

Think about this for a second.  You are getting strange errors running
programs that work just fine for everybody else on hardware that
survived a lightning strike.

Replace the video card.

Blue skies...                   Todd
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