[Novices] Black screen of death

[Brock Inglehart]

--- Bruce Smith <bruce at armintl.com> wrote:

> > > Is this the new wide-aspect, 64bit CPU laptop?
> > > 
> > No, Leola is not having the same problem with
> hers. 
> > This is my generic AMD Duron 850 mhz computer show
> > special with a 19" generic CRT monitor which was
> > purchased in 1999 (the monitor).
> 
> It sounds like some kind of hardware problem, but I
> really have no idea
> how to fix it without a lot of hardware swapping
> trial & error.
> 
> You might be able to work around the problem (not a
> fix) by nuking all
> the user's KDE settings and then not touching the
> screen saver settings
> after that.
> 
> Or, you could try to upgrade to SuSE 9.2.  I just
> got my copy yesterday!
> 
>  - BS
I'm not convinced its hardware.  It didn't do it the
first week of my installation and it doesn't do it in
"blue screen".
What about doing a complete install?  
Brock
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