Aug 28, 2007 09:45 pm hey... I once had a mouse poop on my CMOS battery... fried the CMOS...
Stupid computers
Posted on Aug 28, 2007 09:21 pm
Bleak
A small pie will soon be eaten
Member Since: Aug 26, 2004
My main PC has been out of commission for a few weeks so today i spent a few hours trying to fix it.
I spent hours trying to get into the BIOS and muck about, Taking things out, putting 'em back in and basically doing everything i could think of.
Turns out it was just 2 sticks of dodgy memory. Took it out - Booted up like a treat!
How frustrating! all that work
Well thats my rant over. just thought I'd try and bring some of you down too.
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Aug 28, 2007 09:45 pm hey... I once had a mouse poop on my CMOS battery... fried the CMOS...
Aug 28, 2007 10:10 pm Bugger! I can't beat that!
Aug 28, 2007 11:20 pm i've spent days trying to get my linux box up and running, because i kep forgetting the crappyvideocard I have in it can't handle the latest driver, or running compiz-fusion, so it crashes my x server. So it'll be running for a couple hours, I'll install the drivers and compiz, and then restart or log out, and bam x server is crashed, so I'll reinstall the OS all over again, forget what caused the problem, and do it all over again. I'm on day four of the same thing right now.
Aug 28, 2007 11:36 pm which distribution?
Aug 28, 2007 11:50 pm did you try the installer from here?
elemongw.awardspace.com/?q=projects/linux/cf_i-u
Aug 29, 2007 01:53 am no but i'll look into it. I installed the default "restricted" drivers upon booting up ubuntu, which were the nVidia-legacy driver I believe, then I did:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx
to get the new drivers, which worked fine, and then did the same thing to get compiz-fusion, which installed fine but would not run, and on any restart of the xserver or machine, it would not recognize the xserver and said I needed to restart gdm. The cause of the problem according to the list was that the nvidia-glx drivers were not detected or something, so I tried to use tty1 to sudo apt-get the other drivers, to no avail.
Aug 29, 2007 01:54 am just looked at that link, I don't believe it to be a problem with compiz-fusion, because before i took out my newer card it had worked fine. i think it's that the card is unable to run it that is mucking things up.
Aug 29, 2007 07:47 am ah! I think I'm awake now :)
can you try and paste the error output here?
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