Trouble with fedora

[David Curry]

Ken Cooper wrote:

> Well, our cases are almost the same, and I believe the only difference 
> is the motherboard.  Well, I have a soyo, and he doesn't.  I don't 
> know which he has.  I know that does make a big difference.  I just 
> have to guess it's the motherboard that's faulty, and will have to get 
> a new one unfortunately!!!
>
>    Ken Cooper
>
> David Curry wrote:
>
>> Ken, you wrote earlier that your Dad's machine was "almost" 
>> identical" to your own, but did not elaborate as to how they differed.
>> Do the two machines have the same bios version?
>>
>
Ken, please follow a few list guidelines.  Insert your comments 
immediately following the remarks you are responding to while deleting 
text which is not needed to preserve thread context.  That is, please do 
not top post.

In reading this message, keep in mind that I am an enduser with quite 
limited understanding of linux and of hardware issues.

Your original message asserted that you know that your boot difficulties 
are not related to the video card so I assume that both your machine and 
your Dad's have identical video cards installed.  One possibile 
explanation for your problem is that the video card memory on your 
system has failed.  Another might be that your mobo (motherboard) has 
onboard video, in which case you could try two different approaches.

Since you installed FC3 on your harddisk using your Dad's machine and 
then ported that hd to your machine, the easiest and quickest approach 
might be to disable the onboard video through your bios settings.  
Alternatively, you could leave the bios alone, remove the video card 
from your system and try reinstalling  FC3 using the mobo video.  This 
latter case would also address the situation of bad video card memory.