video card recommendation ? - UPDATE

[Bill Walton]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Cybe R. Wizard
<cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:08:49 -0500
> Bill Walton <bwalton.im at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes.  Something in the package install changed the BIOS settings.
>> Unfortunately it is not possible to simply change the Boot Sequence.
>> The CD device is, according to BIOS as reflected in the Boot Sequence
>> screen, no longer present in the system.  BIOS doesn't see it at all.
>> It is listed at the top of the device listing with a "(not present)"
>> tag next to it.  I have no idea what to do to restore the setting so
>> that BIOS again sees the CD drive.  Any ideas?
>
> It sounds like a hardware issue.  Have you checked the CD drive's
> connections?  If they are good I'd suspect the drive, itself, of going
> suddenly wonky.

Could be.  The drive light comes on, blinks, and then stops just
before the system shuts off.  I'm going to go over and pick up a new
one at Fry's to test the hardware hypothesis.  Keeping my fingers
crossed.

> I doubt the installation affected the BIOS.

I obviously don't have it in front of me atm, but I do remember the
xserver log containing Interrupt entries.  Setting registers and
pulling Interrupts is how you set BIOS though, back in the day when I
was fluent in that, it was Int 13 and what I recall seeing in the log
was Int 10.  Hopefully it's all just a coincidence.

Bill

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