[ale] Something blew up -- but what

Sean Kilpatrick kilpatms at gmail.com
Sat Nov 17 21:53:11 EST 2012


Hmmmm.  Don't think so.  Checked grub.conf and nothing new has been added 
to that for some time.  This box has been rebooted more than a dozen times 
since early September, and before that it was OFF for 11 weeks.

If I find anything remotely useful in BIOS, I'll report.

Sean

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On Saturday, November 17, 2012 08:00:55 pm Jim Kinney wrote:
> Check update log for a new kernel. Your reboot let a new kwrnel to
> load. Maybe try a kernel one version back.
> 
> On Nov 17, 2012 6:40 PM, "Sean Kilpatrick" <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:
> > **
> > 
> > Changing the video feed from DVI to VGA has allowed the system to
> > show mp4 videos. I have absolutely no clue why the DVI connection
> > isn't working correctly. Next step is to prowl around in the BIOS
> > settings and see what's there that might be part of this.
> > 
> > Sean
> > 
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > On Saturday, November 17, 2012 06:15:04 pm Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> > > I'm planning on running memtest overnight. It takes a while.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > But now I have discovered another oddity. Videos don't play.
> > > 
> > > Specifically, I can hear the audio stream, but all I see is a green
> > > 
> > > screen where the video ought to be.
> > > 
> > > Ought to add that I changed the output from computer to monitor
> > > from
> > > 
> > > vga to DVI. I am about to change it back and see if that makes any
> > > 
> > > difference.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Sean
> > > 
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