[ale] Best way to get dual display working (take 2k)

[Scott Castaline]

On 01/05/2011 05:49 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:
> Not highly likely, but the VGA portion of the card, which runs the 
> POST program and until the drivers load to kick it into "high gear" so 
> to speak, is good but the high performance part is bad. That is why I 
> thought booting from a live CD might be good to confirm that the 
> hardware is OK and that the system boots with the new card on a 
> "clean" OS. That would narrow it down to a software config issue on 
> your system. I'm a noob with Linux so I can't help resolve the 
> software issues, but you do want to rule out the possibility of it 
> being hardware related.
>
I also have a problem doing that right now as since F 13, I can't boot a 
LiveCD or InstallCD. It was something to do with Award BIOS on Gigabyte 
boards. I was able to boot those DVDs by taking my DVD-ROM and 
jury-rigging one of my HDD USB enclosures to the ODD. That was one of 
the reasons why when my last board burned out I wanted to make a change 
and initially went with ASUS. I went through 3 ASUS MoBos and finally 
went back to Gigabyte. I just recently found out that there were some 
defective ASUS boards in their inventory, possibly a bad batch of boards.