On Friday 02 February 2001 06:33 am, regarding Re: [newbie]
Emergency...solved, you said:
> On Friday 02 February 2001 00:01, concerningRe: [newbie]
> Emergency...solved,
>
> you wrote:
> > On Thursday 01 February 2001 11:30 am, -michael- wrote:
> > > Somehow my bios values were changed...I reset them and its ok again.
> >
> > Well, for some of us that might'a missed it
> >
> > was it a _USER_ error, hardware, or Mandrake that caused the
> > emergency ;>
>
> Tom, I honestly don't know- all I know is that my bios settings were
> changed...what preceded it was several attempts to boot, all aborted by me
> when the 'eth0' interface was unable to be brought up due to some problem
> probably with my isp. anyway, about the 4th time i aborted with
> control-alt del, it wouldn't get any farther than recognizing my main hd
> and then it would start 01010101ing across the screen. BTW what happened to
> my fonts? when i opened this post i am all of a sudden getting those giant
> dotted letters? but only in the kmail body, not any of the headers.
I logged out as user, back in as root and the font prob vanished.
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-michael-
