New Monitor

[Ted Potter]

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On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Brenda Radford <brkittycat at verizon.net>wrote:

> I am running RHEL AS 4 U5.
> It is an Acer H213H new-fangled monitor (it's huge).
> The video card is an ATI Radeon 9250.
> I have tried hooking it up with a VGA cable and a DVI cable. It made no
> difference.
>
> I tried hooking it up to a VGA monitor. The floppy disk light came on and
> stayed on, so I unplugged the floppy drive and disabled it in the BIOS.
> I got some text display on the VGA monitor related to the BIOS only. No Red
> Hat text of any kind
>
> I do not know how to boot up in text only mode. You will have to tell me
> how
> to do that
>
> I hope it is not DOA. It was working a couple of months ago. I did not have
> the money to renew my Red Hat Academic subscription until today, and I was
> hoping to get the box updated.
>
> Thanks to all you guys; I hope I answered all your questions. I love this
> install list.
>


If you can see the bios then I would expect you should see the boot loader
grub
or whatever. The other idea would be to try and ping the machine if you know
what
the ip address is.

Another idea - get a live boot cd/dvd and boot from that.










>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 8:43 PM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: New Monitor
>
> Brenda Radford wrote:
> > I think I am in trouble already because I am top posting, but blame it on
> > Windows.
> >
> > When I turn the Red Hat box on with the new monitor hooked up, I get the
> > motherboard splash screen and then the screen goes blank. I do not see
> any
> > of the text I am supposed to see when the computer is booting up.
> >
> > Does that change your answer of what to try to do? I tried Ctrl-Alt-F1
> with
> > no results on the screen.
> >
> > I should have given more detail when I asked the question.
>
> We need a bit more data:
>        What version of Red Hat are you running?
>        What monitor is it? (make and model)
>
> Try booting in text only mode and see if it comes up.  If you don't know
> how to do that, let us know, but also tell us the info above.
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Ted Potter
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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. - Albert
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