On 07/29/2013 03:05 AM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Mike McCarthy <sysop at w1nr.net> wrote: >> Aha! non-CentOS drivers? Are these from the OEM? Theyprobably need to be >> rebuilt to the new kernel. >> Have you tried booting into "safe" mode or with video drivers disabled? >> Just how you do that with CentOS I don't know but there should be >> instructions somewhere on the WEB. > Mike, thanks for your reply. > > These are the latest NVidia drivers (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.32.run). > I'm not quite sure it is the problem, however, after running some more > tests. > > I tried rebuilding the NVidia drivers for the latest installed kernel > using the '-k KERNEL_NAME' option to the installer script. These built > successfully while the older kernel was running. On reboot into the > new kernel, I got the same error (hard freeze, unable to reboot the > system without a BIOS flash). I then uninstalled the NVidia > proprietary drivers completely (--uninstall from the script). I > received (expected) X related errors and dropped into a shell on the > old kernel. Trying on the new kernel resulted in the same freeze. > I.e.: > > On grub menu, I choose the newest kernel > (kernel-2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64).In the top left I see > the underline cursor blink for a few seconds and then stop. There's no > other output. The HD and Power light on the system unit is solid at > this point. > > If I try to reboot now I see the system fans spin up at low speed. > About four seconds later the fans momentarily switch to high speed > then the system powers down. Even if I unplug everything, drain the > PSU, the system won't power back up until I reset the BIOS via jumper > blocks. > > The hardware itself seems fine. I am actually typing this now on the > system in question, but in the previous kernel. > > I just ran a quick package list by Vendor (queryformat %{vendor} ) > and found some Dag Apt packages. I'll uninstall these and retest. > > Also checked my BIOS which is: > > Vendor: American Megatrends Inc. > Version: 1302 > Release Date: 11/15/2012 > > If there's an update available I'll flash it. > > This one has me stumped :) You haven't got an errored copy of the kernel by any chance?? I'd wipe it and re-install. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos