computer broke

[James Mcphee]

Sounds kinda like your video drivers are freaking out.  Can you still boot
to external media?

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why in the world don't I leave good enough alone! Well, I installed mint
> and everything was perfect. The grafics were good, the sound was good,
> everything was good after I installed the 3.1.4 kernel. Then I found out I
> wasn't taking advantage of my 64bit processor so I reinstalled with a 64bit
> operating system. That made things slower. So I reinstalled the 32 bit os
> and everything went to hell! The screen now 'jumps ' around like it is
> switching between desktops sometimes. I tried to install the 3.1.4 kernel
> but that didn't work. uname -r reveals me kernel is still 3.0.0-12....
> well, at least it hasn't crashed..... ohhhhh right after the kernel
> finished installing it did crash (the caps lock light started blinking and
> it froze). and the panicing has started! It doesn't tell me it has paniced
> but the caps lock button starts flashing and it locks up like in a panic.
> So I was thinking that perhaps this was because I extracted the .deb files
> through the GUI this time; so I did it through a shell and now after the
> option to enter bios the screen goes black. I tried hitting the escape key
> after the option to enter bios but it does nothing. It hasn't even entered
> runtime 1 (me thinks). Eek gads!
> --
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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