[Novices] Black screen of death

[Bruce Smith]

> > > Esc. does nothing. Enter does nothing.  When the
> > > screen is locked up, neither CAPS LOCK or NUM LOCK
> > > toggle the light.
> > > Brock
> > 
> > Are you current with all the latest updates?
> > 
> Best answer I can give is:I only loaded this up on my
> maching about 2 weeks ago.  If I remember at the time,
> Yast went out and brought me up to date.  Since then,
> periodically I get a msg. that the system "can't check
> for updates" but that didn't seem as important to
> address as having to work or shut the computer off.
> When I bring up the SuSE link from the browser, it
> seems want to take every place but any updates. 
> Perhaps I'm not going to the right place but what
> could this have to do with my problem?

Is this the new wide-aspect, 64bit CPU laptop?

 - BS