Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-24 Thread The Other
On Sat, 22 May 2004 13:36:27 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you do me a flavor? In the interests of Science? To test this theory of mine, that this is perhaps germane to the video card itself, would you turn on system bios shadowing, but leave video shadowing off, and

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 08:46, The Other wrote: On Sat, 22 May 2004 13:36:27 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you do me a flavor? In the interests of Science? To test this theory of mine, that this is perhaps germane to the video card itself, would you turn on

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-24 Thread The Other
Okay, today I turned BIOS shadowing on and left the Video Shadowing off. And yes, I got 2 more BIOS upgrades and tried them out. With Video Shadowing on, they made no difference. I still had an unstable Mandrake system. So I went back to the 1998 version of the Award BIOS that came with my

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-23 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 15:38, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 22 May 2004 12:36 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Would you do me a flavor? In the interests of Science? To test this theory of mine, that this is perhaps germane to the video card itself, would you turn on system bios shadowing, but

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-23 Thread The Other
On Sat, 22 May 2004 16:46:34 -0400, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -When the System Resources screen comes up during the Install, go to -the Printer Section and make sure you do a Print Test Page. This works, but if I remember correctly it does take up an additional IRQ. One of the

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-22 Thread The Other
On Fri, 21 May 2004 12:09:24 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 08:44, The Other wrote: My solution was to turn off *all* ROM Shadowing in the BIOS. Windows doesn't mind the ROM Shadowing, but Linux wants to control all of the system's memory. When I turned off

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-22 Thread The Other
Oh, forgot to mention the other BIOS settings you may want to check: PNP OS Installed (or may be called Plug'n'Play OS Installed)-- set it to NO And to avoid some problems with your Printer being automatically detected and installed: Parallel Port Mode-- set it to ECP+EPP (or at least ECP or

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-22 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 12:34, The Other wrote: Greetings LX, I'm running a circa 1998 system with Mandrake 9.1 (in the process of building LFS {Linux From Scratch} 5.0) on the following hardware: Asus P2B AGP motherboard with the Intel 440BX chipset and Award BIOS (IIRC, I know it's

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 22 May 2004 12:36 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Would you do me a flavor?  In the interests of Science?  To test this theory of mine, that this is perhaps germane to the video card itself, would you turn on system bios shadowing, but leave video shadowing off, and see if your system

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 22 May 2004 12:40 pm, The Other wrote: -Oh, forgot to mention the other BIOS settings you may want to check: - -PNP OS Installed (or may be called Plug'n'Play OS Installed)-- set -it to NO - -And to avoid some problems with your Printer being automatically -detected and installed: -

[newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-20 Thread Philip J Scott
What is wrong with this os. Windows loads boots and works right away, Linux for some reason allways has problems either install or booting. I have used it or been trying it since 9.1 still not got any of them to work properly. Just managed after a struggle to get 10 to boot, now i get to the

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-20 Thread robin
Philip J Scott wrote: What is wrong with this os. Windows loads boots and works right away, Linux for some reason allways has problems either install or booting. I have used it or been trying it since 9.1 still not got any of them to work properly. Just managed after a struggle to get 10 to boot,

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-20 Thread The Other
On Thu, 20 May 2004 08:31:37 +0100, Philip J Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is wrong with this os. Windows loads boots and works right away, Linux for some reason allways has problems either install or booting. I have used it or been trying it since 9.1 still not got any of them to work

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-20 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 20 May 2004 08:31:37 +0100 Philip J Scott disseminated the following: What is wrong with this os. Nothing. Windows loads boots and works right away, Linux for some reason allways has problems either install or booting. Great. Windows will install and boot on any ol' crap, even Dell