Did my Geoforce4 card die?

agcm · n00b Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 33

I was running mandrake on my other HD when I tried to mount a gentoo partition that took forever to finish, I tried killing the process and after a while my machine just locked up, no mouse response and I could not ssh to shut it off normally, so I pressed the power switch.

After booting everything is normal until it starts X and it is just a black screen, when I change to a terminal it returns to normal but when I try to switch back to X it is the same black screen. I tried the GentooGames LiveCD and it goes black when it tries to load X also. Is my card damaged? is it just because it tries to load the NVIDIA drivers? I bought it like 6 months ago do you think it might still be covered by the card manufacturers warranty?

Thanks in Advanced

TheCoop · Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 7:12 am Post subject:

whats in /var/log/Xfreesomething.log?
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Malakin · Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 6:28 pm Post subject:

Try using the nv or vesa driver just to see what happens.