Hi Howard,
have you tried to reset bios to factory default?
Ive also seen before on a machine that had the bios selecting whether it was
going to boot from a PCI video or AGP.
If set incorrectly you saw the Bios on one screen and then the operating system
on the other... same symptoms you see
From my experience it's either two things, memory or your power supply.
For memory, try running memtest (www.memtest.org), which can also be found
on a Ubuntu live CD.
For PSU, well, you've gotta have a spare PSU around.
Bill
On 02/07/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a
This could happen because of simply plugging the mouse into the keyboard
socket and vice-versa.
Why not simplify the problem and have only one hard disk and no CDROM,
or change the HDD.
Change the memory chips, and only put in one known good one. Even just
try to boot off a floppy with no HDD,