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sorry for late response.  its a raptor gfx card.
On Jan 8, 2008, at 11:01 PM, Stephen Hurd wrote:

> amilcar padilla wrote:
>> I cannot test the serial console capability as I am without a  
>> serial port on any of my machines.  I also don't think it would be  
>> a graphics card issue since it hangs when loading the kernel.
>
> This is precisely the symptoms I saw whan I had my Expert 3D-Lite in  
> my Blade.
> iirc, the last message I saw on the console was "Jumping to <some  
> address>"
>
> If you know the model of video card (many of them display that in  
> the top left curner during POST) we could let you know if it's known  
> to not work.  What it seems to boil down to is that if it is a  
> 3Dlabs based card, it will not work.