Re: centos 5.5 on optiplex 745

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On Monday 28 June 2010 12:58:36 Janez Kosmrlj wrote:
> Hi,
> we have some old dell optiplex 745 machines which have the Intel 965q
> chipset. The problem is, that they freeze as soon as the system tries to
> start the X system. It happens even before any log is written. This happens
> almost every time (for some reason it sometimes work, but 99% it fails).
> When i change the graphic driver in xorg.conf from intel to vesa it mostly
> works, but still i sometimes get a flickering screen, but this can mostly
> be resolved using ctrl+alt+backspace (sometimes you have to try this
> twice). We use the 1024x768 and 24 bit colors, so this shouldn't be the
> problem.
> 
> Does anyone know a fix for this problem?
> 
> Janez

Janez,

I seem to remember having a similar problem with a lab full of those machines 
some years ago. They were running an earlier version of Fedora. What we had to 
do was upgrade the BIOS. They are now running Fedora-11 with BIOS ver 2.6.2

Hope this helps,

Tony
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