[SOLVED] memtest and black screen

innovatel · Last edited by innovatel on Sun Oct 19, 2003 10:35 am; edited 1 time in total

Hello everybody and good saturday.

Today I wanto to install gentoo 1.4 so I insert the cd and when I can decide memtest or the kernel from the list I wrote "memtest".

After this select I don't see nothing. The screen was black and I don't kwon if the pc was worked or not. ( 50 minutes )

I do a "manual shoutdown" and now I'm here.

Can yuo help me?

Sorry for my english, it's not very well

Bye Bye
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jat850 · n00b Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Posts: 43 Location: Canada

Innovatel,

Try this, it's worth a shot:

memtest nofb

If that doesn't work, try

memtest,nofb

I think that will disable framebuffer and it might help fix your problem.

innovatel · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 10:59 am Post subject:

jat850, I try your solution but i saw the black screen.

Thank yuo very much

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innovatel · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 10:35 am Post subject:

The problem was my GForceII MX200 32Mb. We think the ram is defective. When we changed videocard the problem is solved and now we install gentoo.

thank you a lot.
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