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Hi Christos ... 

I wish I had an instant solution for you.  Regrettably, I can't remember 
how I solved the problem.  But I think that I somehow managed to get my 
original 8.1 Mandrake system restored and I have been living (mostly 
happily) with 8.1 with no updates ever since.  I just found a new monitor 
that worked on my old system. 

Now, I am totally gun-shy about _ever_ doing any system "updates." 

For some time, I have been planning to build an all new system and 
I am planning to try installing and trying out several different distros, 
though I am anticipating that I may end up going back to Mandrake 
again, but with a newer version.  I think that Linux is sufficiently mature 
now that once one gets a good, solid, dependable installation, it may 
be best to forget "updates" and stay with what one knows works. 

I will pass along your inquiry to our local Linux Users Group.  There 
are a lot of LUGs around the world, so surely somebody can help you. 
Also, you might check with Netraverse, if you haven't already, as they 
have provided some helpful tech support to me in the past.  I may still 
put Win4Lin on the new system that I am planning to build, although I 
would really like to get totally away from having to have any of that 
M$ garbage on any of my computers. 

Joe 


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On Tuesday 27 July 2004 13:48, you wrote:
> Dear sir
>
> I have recenty encountered the same problem as you did:
>
>       av7 : 09/02 12:06 : Incident created
>       Recently, my monitor died and the process of finding a suitable
> replacement led to a series of new problems. Someone at Mandrake told me
> that I really needed to update my 8.1 system (which had been working just
> fine), and the process of installing the updates royally messed everything
> up.
>
>       Now, when I try to boot up with Linux or Win4Lin, after the system
> goes through all the usual start-up processes, a shell login appears on
> the screen for less than second and then the screen goes black and there
> is nothing I can do except hit reset on the box.
>
>       If I boot up with either Linux-nonfb or failsafe, the computer
> starts up fine and everything works fine, except I cannot start up
> Win4Lin.
>
>       I have been trying for more than two weeks to solve this problem,
> without any progress.
>
>       I am willing to pay a reasonable fee for a satisfactory solution,
> but feel that the Mandrake 8.1 updates are responsible for my problems and
> it irks me to have to pay for a solution that Mandrake caused. My system
> worked just fine before doing the Mandrake updates.
>
>       Help!
>
>       Joe Lowder - joe@actionline.com
>       Mesa, Arizona
>
>
> could you please tell me what yoy did, to fix the problem?
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Christos Chatzigiannis
> M.Sc. Medical Physicist
> Veaki 20, 11525, Athens
> Greece
>
> Phone: +30 106747348 / +30 6972237153
> E-Mail: chatzig@med.uoa.gr
>             christoschatzigiannis@hotmail.com
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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