Akemi wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Ron Loftin <reloftin at twcny.rr.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 16:34 -0400, m.roth at 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