Random computer crashing

[Mitchell Brown]

Haha. That was the biggest waste of time in my life. Ever.
I pulled the case out, unscrewed it, unplugged the fans on the door. Then I
started unplugging everything and plugging it back in. I removed my AGP
card, my ram, my hard disks, everything - and reseated them all. Still
didn't work. So then, I opened it back up, removed the power supply, and
tried the old one. Still didn't work! The whole time I was thinking what the
hell?! So then, at one last ditch attempt, I yanked out the ATI AIW and
plugged the monitor into the onboard graphics port. I fire up PCLinuxOS -
and it boots! the login screen! it works!  so I think my cards buggered up
right.. so i plug it back in (the ATI), and plug the monitor back into it,
and it WORKS! Now, I'm really puzzled. Okay, on the back of the ATI card,
there's a big huge fat cable. It's hooked to the vid card with a proprietary
plug. It splices out to SVid out, Composite out, 2 SVG outs, TV in,
composite in, svid in. All in Wonder [image: Wink] Hehe. Now I'm thinking --
hmmm maybe this cable is fudged right - ... not so. My brother looks at it
and notices theres 2 SVG outs. He says "I didn't see that there were two of
those :-/" I'm like "Which did you plug it in?" hes like "I don't know!"
lol. It turned out he plugged it into the "VGA 2" plug which is designed for
a second monitor ... *sigh* -- so PCLinuxOS was pushing the video out to the
VGA 1 port, but the monitor was on VGA 2.

Oddly enough the loading gauge worked just fine, yet the actual OS didn't
load up on it.. Knoppix figured it out, Windows did, so did Kubuntu :-/
Haha. Wow what a waste of time.
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