I've seen this "blank" behavior on a main board with an embedded video chip. An ASUS something or other. I noticed that if I hit a key to stop the 10 second count down and start the boot process, it always gave me the blank screen up to the time that X started. If I waited and allowed the clock to hit 0 and boot by itself it always came up fine allowing me to see the [ OK ]'s flying by. I have no clue if this was coincidental or not, but I was curious about it and did some amount of half hearted testing either way and I was left with the impression that allowing it to run the clock down always worked but that was several months ago. I also had a crappy Belden (I repeat myself) KVM switch during that time and the switch was the most likely culprit. However, I never observed the behavior on anything but an embedded video main board. I had several boxes at the time with the same main board and they all did it. Bill Gradwohl YCC (817) 224-9400 x211 www.ycc.com SPAMstomper Protected E-mail -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
