Eben King wrote:
>On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, michael hast wrote:
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>>Bob Stia wrote:
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>>>Hello Sluggers,
>>>
>>>Been trying to convert my son from Windoz to Linux for several years now.
>>>Finally he had enough of the Windoz problems that he agreed to let me
>>>install my SuSE 9.2 on his machine.
>>>
>>>Popped in my 9.2 disk, the SuSE splash screen came up and then I got a
>>>message in a little square box that stated:
>>>"Out of Range." and gave the following numbers. "Hf46.4 Vf 86hz" and
>>>gave the proper ranges of, "30-80khz Hf & 55-75 khz Vf" So his
>>>monitor, a 17" lcd is evidently out of range. The machine froze at
>>>this point and would not proceed. Have never seen this before. Has
>>>anyone seen this before or can help me get around this?
>>>
>>>Related, or maybe not, and the final straw was, when he couldn't get
>>>past this "blue screen" message in W98. This was coincidentally ? or
>>>not ? right after he had installed a new additional DVD drive. The
>>>message was:
>>>An OE exception has occurred at 0028:00000002 in VxD ---This was
>>>called from 0028:C1C 33500 in VxD voltrack (04) blah blah,blah. Is
>>>this the same thing as what I saw in the SuSE install screen? (If you
>>>know or even care)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Stupid question: On the two drives (one being a new dvd,) did he jumper
>>one as a slave?
>>
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>While that may result in an error, sure, it wouldn't result in the quoted
>message. Are you hypothesizing a harmless monitor error that produces the
>"86hz" message, and an unrelated fatal silent jumpering error?
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That's exactly what I'm thinking. a subtle problem hiding behind a more
obvious one. I've chased ghosts like that a bunch of times! (not just
with computers, either.)
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