From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 12 14:25:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB71716A41C for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:25:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jim.mozley@exponential-e.com) Received: from mx1.exponential-e.net (ixbl-sun-02.exponential-e.net [62.244.177.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9029543D45 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:25:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jim.mozley@exponential-e.com) Received: from 62-244-191-249.cust.exponential-e.net ([62.244.191.249]:48581 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by mx1.exponential-e.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DsLhU-0007UV-Ai for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:25:32 +0000 Message-ID: <42D3D209.4010803@exponential-e.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:22:01 +0100 From: Jim Mozley Organization: Exponential-e User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <42CEA51C.2000202@exponential-e.com> <42D28729.6090908@exponential-e.com> <42D29A9A.1070501@exponential-e.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Screen display problem during installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:25:34 -0000 Hornet wrote: > Ahh, but awkwardness and upgrading is almost always synonymous. Awkwardness was one of the words I used, there have been some others ;-). > Maybe you can get a USB floppy drive and try to console that way? You > may want to also look at the BIOS and see if there is an update or > tweak on the video card or AGP. Thanks again. I had checked the BIOS settings and hadn't seen anything that would help but I didn't consider a BIOS upgrade, so I'll check this. > I know you said you tested it on > another PC, but did you test it on another server of the same EXACT > spec's (BIOS version included)? No it wasn't the same system at all I just wanted to see if it was a problem with the CDs or the system. I tried on a different spec system again and an install is currently underway (i.e. out of three different systems one doesn't seem to work). So I think it is the one server type I have a problem with. > Also if this video card shares mem > with the system mem, you could try giving the card like 32M to start > on, then take that back down once its up and working. I'll look into the BIOS setting again. Thanks, Jim