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zer(-)biwan
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Hi,
Got myself into a bit of a bind. Economics being the way they are I'm currently using a pretty old machine for everything at the moment.
Hardware is
400mhz Pentium II
256MB Ram
Riva 128 Graphix
It has been running XP Pro and Linux in dual boot successfully for months, but I've noticed a problem with the graphics card. It's dying slowly as the display becomes a little distorted. This happens in both XP Pro and Linux so it's obviously hardware.
Earlier today I reduced the resolution in XP and the screen just went black>>Nothing>>zilth. I rebooted and now it fails to load drivers for XP (tried getting to safe mode and it doesn't work).
But I can access the Linux side of things, thus the ability to post this.
I'm wondering if I can access the config file that sets resolution and manually edit it from the linux side. This might help in being at least able to boot into XP.
any help is well appreciated.
Thanks
Got myself into a bit of a bind. Economics being the way they are I'm currently using a pretty old machine for everything at the moment.
Hardware is
400mhz Pentium II
256MB Ram
Riva 128 Graphix
It has been running XP Pro and Linux in dual boot successfully for months, but I've noticed a problem with the graphics card. It's dying slowly as the display becomes a little distorted. This happens in both XP Pro and Linux so it's obviously hardware.
Earlier today I reduced the resolution in XP and the screen just went black>>Nothing>>zilth. I rebooted and now it fails to load drivers for XP (tried getting to safe mode and it doesn't work).
But I can access the Linux side of things, thus the ability to post this.
I'm wondering if I can access the config file that sets resolution and manually edit it from the linux side. This might help in being at least able to boot into XP.
any help is well appreciated.
Thanks