Help: Install on AMD 64 creates display wash

[Rory Gleeson]

Any quick help that can be provided would be most welcomed!   
 
PROBLEM: After successfully installing FC2 32bit, on reboot, graphical load 
screen goes awash in colour. 
 
DETAILS: I've just bought a new computer today and was trying to load FC2.  
Everything went fine on install.  No issues.  My monitor wasn't initially 
recognized, but I selected it from the monitor list and proceeded without 
issue.  Graphics were fine on install.  Install completed successfully. 
 
On reboot, the Grub graphics screen with kernel was recognized.  The system 
then started to do a text load for a few seconds until it hit the graphical 
load portion of the boot-up sequence.  Then, it went to switch over to the 
graphical load screen, as it typically does.  However, when it got to that 
part of the boot-up process, the screen went awash in coloured, pixely, 
uneven patterns across my screen. 
 
This happened on three different install attempts: 
My FC2 HD from my Celeron was loaded in to my computer and initially did 
this.  I then did an FC2 *upgrade* without issue but on reboot the same 
thing occurred again.  I then did a *clean install* to reformat the disc.  
Again, all went smoothly until I hit the same problem at the same point, 
once again.   
 
Help!  I'm really partial to Fedora after trying out Mandrake 10, SuSE and 
Debian Sarge.  It's a great distro so I'd love to get it back.   
 
COMPUTER SPECS: 
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000 
Motherboard: K8V SE Deluxe 
Video card: ATI Radeon 9200 SE 
Monitor: ACER 54E 
 
Loading FC2 Final 32 bit.  My FC2 64bit version discs didn't download 
properly on to be friend's XP box, so I'm stuck on 32bit for now.  My FC2 
32bit discs work and were used to install on my old Celeron machine, so 
that's not the problem. 
 
Please feel free to CC: any responses to rory at childwelfare.ca, as I'm on the 
digest version.  I'm currently typing from the SuSE 9.1 LiveCD, but I'm not 
a fan of SuSE or Mandrake, so save me! :) 
 
Thanks, 
Rory