what video card and what version of windows do you use? ( if you said already I lost that post...) anyway win98 has had a ongoing problem like you describe though I don't remember what it was.
generally in linux my experience has been if a piece of hardware was flaky linux simply would not install and if something quits it's either loose or broken. Don't know of tools to check the devices directly as they are usally written for windows based os's
Crak600 - Michael wrote:
ok, in windows you can right click on "my computer" and it gives you hardware profiles and you can see if everything is working correctly.
1st question....where do you do that in mandrake 9.1? i think i saw it before but can't seem to find it now.
2nd question....can you test your hardware for problems?
reason i ask is i've had some minor problems with my video card before. when the computer would go into "power save" mode and turn the moniter off, half the time the moniter wouldn't come back on, it would give me an error (can't remember what it was). i got around that problem by turning that feature off and just manually turned the moniter off. well, earlier today, my moniter got REAL fuzzy, as in, could barely read the screen. i logged out of linux and jumped over to windows, same thing. then turned the comp off, restarted it, same thing again in linux and in windows. then i switched moniters and the problem is gone. yes, that would generally mean that it's the moniter that is bad, but it's a brand new moniter, not even 2 weeks old. anyway, just wondering if i can test the vid card while it's in the computer just to be certain it's the moniter and not the video card. Thanks!
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