Swapping the mainboard and CPU out... what do I need to know?

[Steve]

Senectus . wrote:
> Ok I fixed that one.. I was dumb and forgot to plug the nvidia card
> into power :-P
> now GDM starts fine.. and I log in, but after I log in it just gives
> me a brown screen with no icons or panels (and the mouse cursor is
> there as well) plus the loading splash never came up either.
> Any idea's why Gnome is broken?

CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE will not restart it? Occasionally X server does not 
work properly even on logging in (for me anyway), and usually this does 
it. May have to type "startx" if it actually drops you to a commandline.

I'm not sure what else it could be...

-Steve.
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