On Monday 28 June 2010 12:58:36 Janez Kosmrlj wrote: > Hi, > we have some old dell optiplex 745 machines which have the Intel 965q > chipset. The problem is, that they freeze as soon as the system tries to > start the X system. It happens even before any log is written. This happens > almost every time (for some reason it sometimes work, but 99% it fails). > When i change the graphic driver in xorg.conf from intel to vesa it mostly > works, but still i sometimes get a flickering screen, but this can mostly > be resolved using ctrl+alt+backspace (sometimes you have to try this > twice). We use the 1024x768 and 24 bit colors, so this shouldn't be the > problem. > > Does anyone know a fix for this problem? > > Janez Janez, I seem to remember having a similar problem with a lab full of those machines some years ago. They were running an earlier version of Fedora. What we had to do was upgrade the BIOS. They are now running Fedora-11 with BIOS ver 2.6.2 Hope this helps, Tony