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Black Screen of Death - FIXED !!!
Sorry, I missed the first part of the tread. Could someone please define the Black Screen of Death and when it occurs. I may be experiencing it. The Black Screen of Death is - well, black... And it occurs in various places. -- Cheers, Eol Homepage: http://agts.cnc2.com/ E-mail: mosi...@online.no ICQ: 12177609.

HELP: Black Screen of Death
I rarely encounter Black screens of death, although I often have Blue come over to visit every few programs or so. My sis encountered a Black Screen of Death while browsing multiple windows in IE6.0. Unfortunately, she can't remember what she actually did to cause a crash, except try to close a window while looking

PSO: Sigh. Black Screen of Death
I then ran "startx", but when I logged out with reboot, my next login caused the black screen of death and a corrupt file system. Does anyone have a clue what's going on and how I might fix it? Or has anyone seen this behavior? Any help would be greatly appreciated. BTW, here are my system configurations.

Black Screen of Death
Issues range from freezing, red ring of death and VGA adapterm alfunction. Microsoft isn't acknowledging the issue and billing $140 for repairs. Autoupdate killed my 360! ,----[ Quote ] I was fine yesterday gaming with the VGA cable but after getting the autoupdate today, I get a black screen.

HELP: Stealth II Black Screen of Death
Now, I'm not so sure of my decision as I'm reading about various issues with Vostro desktops such as the as yet unsolvable black screen of death, device conflicts, flimsy optical drive doors, etc. Anyone here have the Vostro 400 who could comment on it's stability and their satisfaction? I could probably cancel the

Black Screen of Death
I got a black screen with 3 arching line across the top and after about 2 minutes the picture came back ... tonight the same thing happened and after a minutes I turned the tv off ... I waited about a minute and turned it back on ... but this time and was no arching lines across the top .. just a black screen

Black screen (of death) after user switching / remote desktop ...
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Black Screen of Death - FIXED !!!
This apparently happens during a period of time when the monitor has be shut off (while the computer is not in use) and when I turn the monitor back on all that is displayed is the blinking cursor on the black screen. And yes, the computer is locked up - not even the cad will work.

Pakistan targets TV critics
That is to say the blank screen that randomly and intermittently happens during bootup and hangs the booting so that you have to reboot (twice). Anyone know? (You would think that Diamond would have text files that describe what bugs the drivers and BIOSes fix, but no such luck.) Thanks in advance. Bob.

Easy CD Creator 4.0 - Black Screen Of Death !
The system would boot up just fine and work for anything between 3 minutes to 30 minutes after which the screen would go black. Ping'ing the machine from one of my other boxes told me that the system was still running so figured it had to be a video driver problem of some kind. It didn't end with a reboot though,

Black screen of death!
**what exactly happens during the "bsod"** so after the windows98 logo screen, the black screen appears first with a small blinking cursor near the upper left corner. then the cursor quickly disappears and the screen is completely black, with no response at all to the mouse or keyboard. ...meantime, the external

Moving three offices from Windoze to Linux
Black screen of death (but music still plays) Hmmph. Is this a know issue? I tried the things on the Microprose Website, they dont seem to help. All other sims I have continue to work fine. Occasionally I get this with my voodoo banshee I find that running mprtest.exe before F4 ALWAYS avoids the probelm.

Black Screen of Death
Ghostrider -...@fitron.142 comp os ms-windows setup win3x John Scott wrote: ave just installed a copy of 3.11 for workgroups , the installation seemed to proceed okay however once at the dos prompt when I type "win" the windows logo screen appears then the screen goes black no prompt or windows and stubbornly

Black screen of death
The real answer is in ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/screen/default/0/% gconf.xml. -- you didn't mention gnome vs kde.. I don't have a ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/screen/default but I do have a ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/gconf.xml zero bytes.. (empty) -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459

black screen of death
Whenever I try to boot regularly, it gets past the "starting windows" scrolling thingie, then pops to a black screen and goes no further. !#@$! System as follows: AMD K6-2 450 FIC PA-2013 rev2 motherboard 128meg SDRAM 10gig IBM HD partitioned as C:(win98) D: (win2000) E: (cabs & stuff) 42X Kenwood CD-Rom Aztech

black screen of death
Rick ricka...@rcn.com comp os ms-windows setup win3x Ghostrider wrote: John Scott wrote: ave just installed a copy of 3.11 for workgroups , the installation seemed to proceed okay however once at the dos prompt when I type "win" the windows logo screen appears then the screen goes black no prompt or windows and

New Millennium Drivers v3.06(NT) == Black Screen of Death
When I chose that, the screen went black. I cannot see how to recover the default resolution. I couldn't find a file on the system with a modification time of when this happened, so the question is: Where is the current screen mode stored? And no, I don't mean the list of possible screen modes. For that see above.

black screen of death after windows load
I can ssh in despite the black screen of death, top shows 99% idle (with top being the top process). Here are some of the things I've checked to try and troubleshoot the problem. # lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) Subsystem:

urgent help needed re black screen of death (after changing ...
Has anyone told Westwood or EA that there is now a fix for the black screen of death? It doesn't fix all the Black Screen Of Death problems... And WW wouldn't be able to do anything about it anyway, since the files are pirated. -- Cheers, Eol Homepage: http://agts.cnc2.com/ E-mail: mosi...@online.no ICQ: 12177609.

M1TP2 Black screen of death fixed in patch?
(i cant as mentioned in my first post.. i would get served the black screen of death if i tried to enter windows normally) in vga mode the display settings was 640x480 with 6 bit color. attempts to change the resolution to higher for example 800.600 or changing the color bit to 16 bit results in well.. the black