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[Computer Hobbyist]

Last night I upgraded my old 586x133 motherboard to a FIC VA 503+ with a 500mhz K 6-2 processor with 128 meg of PC-100 ram. Everything seems to be installed properly. It seems to be running perfectly well. I installed the same old PCI video card and monitor I was using before. Before Xwindows worked. While I can load up Linux (Red Hat 6.0) and run it in terminal mode with no difficulty, when I try to load Xwindows the screen goes black (with only a mouse pointer showing.) When I run Xconfigurator it finds my video card and monitor and installs both to the default settings. But the screen again goes black with the same mouse pointer. I think its a bios problem since the card and monitor haven't changed and were working very well before. I have already swapped out monitors and the second monitor had the same problem. I haven't yet swapped video cards. Any thoughts on trouble shooting? I could reformat and see if it installs in Windows 98, but the whole purpose of this exercise is to learn linux.

CH

[Computer Hobbyist]

For the few who read the post, the problem was with the video card. I swapped cards and solved the problem. Linux works a lot better with a faster processor and 128 meg of ram.

CH