On Thursday 03 June 2010 21:31:37 Anne Wilson wrote: > I'm not sure what's happening on my new laptop - the F13 one. I had quite > a few windows open. when suddenly the screen scrambled - it looked as > though holes were punched in every character. The wallpaper and plasmoids > were unaffected. It held like that for a few seconds, then dropped out to > a black screen with a white cursor. It wouldn't accept any input from > keyboard or mouse. > > I powered off, waited a while and powered up again. It got to the > f-infinity buble completed, and stuck there. Thinking that it may be a > kernel update (I usually reboot when I see one, but could have missed > doing) I tried the previous kernel. Exactly the same. f-infinity. > That's all. > > Any ideas as to what could have gone wrong? Without a clue it's difficult > to decide on a plan of action. > > Anne If you was not doing anything unusual, then it sounds like either something bad happened to some hardware or your disk is full. Eli -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.