Okay, so I sat down and did some tests this weekend on my desktop to see what's going on. I'll recap what my system hardware is right now: Pentium 4 2.53GHz 2 x 512 MB DDR 333 memory Maxtor 40 GB EIDE HDD SB Live! 5.1 soundcard Linksys LNE100TX NIC Chaintech GeForce 4 ti4200 video card AGP-8x Had no errors reported in extensive testing mode of Memtest-86 v 3. I ran the test overnight for about 10 hours. I can post specs if someone wants of the test later. This morning, I started pulling cards. Here's the original layout: AGP - video card of course PCI slot 2 - SB Live 5.1 card PCI slot 4 - Linksys NIC Slot 1 being closest to the processor. As mentioned previously, the soundcard and NIC have worked in Linux machines previously. The video, mobo, processor and ram haven't. To get to the point, it's my video card. I put a Viper v550 pci card in, and it boots fine to linux. I swapped in a temporary GeForce 4 mx card (standard video and S-Video) and it works fine. Boots super fast too! Okay, so here's my dilemma now... The ti4200 video card I have has 3 outputs on it: Standard video out, s-video and some kind of DVI connection for going to flat panels if I'm not mistaken. Now that I think about it, after I see the "linux loading" message and the screen goes blank, the HDD is still showing activity for a little while afterwards. So, I'm guessing that in Windows, it detects which head has output (or it sends them to both) and Linux can't recognize which head is connected. Or, it defaults to the DVI connection. Does anyone know of a way to change this? Preferably, I'd like to disable the DVI connection on the card, but I'm not seeing anything that allows me to do so. No jumpers or anything. -- Shawn The difficult we do today; the impossible take a little longer. Ne Obliviscaris -- "Forget Not" _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list