[K12OSN] cannot get machine booted

[Dale Harkness]

Quentin Hartman wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 07:42, Dale Harkness wrote:
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>>i have a few IBM PC 340 desktops that have onboard video cards (Cirrus 
>>Logic), about 16 MB of Ram, and about 3 GB of HD space.
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>> i thought maybe it might be the onboard video, so i slapped in a PCI based video card, but same 
>>thing happens there too.  is the IBM PC 340 just not going to work, i 
>>have tried 2 or 3 and none seem to work.
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>Was the chipset on the PCI card you put in also Cirrus? There are a
>couple revisions of Cirrus chipsets that are supported on older Xfree
>versions, but not newer ones. They are in the 54xx family, I don't
>remember the exact model. Also, what about the monitor? If it is getting
>run in too high of a refresh rate, some will blank the screen instead of
>displaying the garbage typically associated with too high refresh rates.
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the PCI card is ATI based.  the monitor is a monitor we are using for 
other LTSP installs and they all work fine.  after a while the screen 
does black out though, (i would say after 5 minutes or so). do you think 
maybe the refresh rate still has something to do with it?