Akemi wrote:
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Ron Loftin reloftin@twcny.rr.com wrote:
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 16:34 -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
mark wrote: Akemi wrote:
So, at this point, we've given up - his machine wasn't on a UPS, and given the power in this building, there's a high probability of a surge, and something on the card got fried - so he's got another machine, and we're probably going to call this one dead.
Sorry to hear that the problem was more serious than initially thought.
Yeah, we were afraid that was it. I mean, the nvidia installer binary package had been working fine, as does the one on my own system. But I reinstalled (over and over), and *if* the Nvidia logo came up, it had moving pixels of garbage in it, and if it didn't come up, the pixilated garbage was scrolling too fast to read. ssh'ing in, I could see in the log what I originally said - the "initialized GART, then "failing to allocate ROP", which I simply wasn't going to go down to read code to understand.
It's dead, Jim. You grab its tricorder, and I'll grab its wallet. <g>
Oh, and he had nothing plugged into his UPS. "Oh, yeah, it's been dead for a long time, I'm not sure there's a battery in it...." *sigh*
When I mentioned that to my boss, he said that we're not their mothers....
mark