[chris79]

i recently bought RHL 9 and a new hard dreive to put it on but after partitioning and partial install it locks and the monitor shuts off. Have tried text install and all works well untill boot into GUI and monitor shuts off. similar thing happens with mandrake 8.2.

Hardware:

Elite group p4s5 mobo
2.0 p4
1gig RAM
2 80mb maxtor ide hard drives
nVidia geforce4 fx5600 256mb Video Card
sound blaster pci512 sound card
:dead:

 

[gotissues68]

You're settings for X Windows (the gui) are probably wrong. If you can boot with the CD at the prompt type "rescue" without the quotes and edit /etc/inittab and make sure it boots to run level 3 instead of 4 or 5, this will put you at a prompt and allow you to edit the X Windows settings without it locking up.


HTH
Drew