laptop screen hosed except with X and nvidia driver

Byron Poland wpoland at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 01:08:23 UTC 2006


I managed to to find a fix my self.  I'll state it here incase it ever
happens to anyone else, they can search the archives.

I took the laptop apart, and pulled the video card, and then
reassembled everything, and got things to work again. A PITA solution
to a strange problem.

On 1/3/06, Byron Poland <wpoland at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a dell 8500 with a GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go in it.  I put breezy on
> it recently, and have been experiencing some weird crashes, and other
> issues.
>
> The weirdest right now, is that the computer refuses to display
> anything on the screen (boot logo and bios data included).   However
> once X starts and loads the nvidia driver, X works fine.
>
> This is a huge problem as I can't get to the bios or use the nv driver
> for some troubleshooting.
>
> I've tried rolling the nvidia driver back to the legacy one in the
> repositories, but that didn't help.  also tried removing all power to
> the computer, ac and battery.  I guess the nvidia card's bios is
> corrupted or something.  anyone have any ideas?
>




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