valentine

K, i installed mandrake. All went well as far as maintaining my Windows partition, and being able to boot to it. However, I installed Mandrake and it will not boot into the Xwindow server. Everything boots ok green all the way (except for eth0, but that's to be expected) then i get the blue screen with the black x outlined with whit, and that's it. Doesn't progress from the and my cpu led is dead. Can anyone help? System specs: AMDXP 2400+ 80gb hdd maxtor 160gb hdd wd asus motherboard nvidia nforce chipset nvidia geforce fx 5200 agp card (which needs to be set at 72fps if anyone knows how) thanks for all your help guys, -valentine EDIT: It has to do with my agp video card, because i switched back to my nvidia geforce 2 integrated video card, and it loaded up fine. Any suggestions? Note, i haven't installed the nvidia drivers yet, but am about to do so.

in command prompt, if you type "ipconfig /all" without the quotes of course. Then it will list all of that info for ya. I imagine it's the same for DOS

Nice thanks, i've been doing a lot of research, and i found that the processor archetecture stems from an old class. I used to have an old 286, and after 486 they started using fancy names like pentium etc. As far as i can tell the AthlonXP 2400+ is an i686. Does that mean that a i386 distro won't run as well as say an i586?

Excellent thanks guys. Now, I've got a ver noobie question for ya. I have the AMD XP 2400+ processor. What class is that, ie i386, i486, or i586? -valentine

What's up guys/gals, I have a question. I'm running a dual-boot system with WindowsXP and RedHat9. I want to replace The RedHat9 partitions with Mandrake10. I am using the GRUB boot-loader. Last time a tried this, It completely lost my WindowsXP boot information, so i had to completely reformat. Is there a way to do this without these adverse affects? If so, how? Thanks in advance for any help, -valentine btw, i wan't to wipe my RedHat slate clean, i'm not worried about saving any of files.