[ILUG] Bios Bother [SlightlyOT]

[John McCormac]

Pablo El Vagabundo wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Just put together a box with Luvy mandrake8.2,
> detected everything and its all going swimmingly.
> 
> My old box i was going to get rid of redmundoz and
> install , guess wot, 8.2..
> 
> Anyway after transferinhg my tv card to my new comp
> and rebooting my bios screen is all weird, instead of
> the normal "award bios" i get "a$.rsd b-2s" the screen

It could be videocard problems. Though have you set the initial video
setting to AGP rather than PCI?

> is laid out as it was but character are sustituted.
> the initall dos boot up of windows is simarly corrupt.
> But about from some curruption on the windows98
> graphic, windows runs fine.
> 
> I tried flashing the bios, but that went okay but made
> no difference. This ever happened to anyone? Any
> IdeaS?

Try taking the tv card out and rebooting. If the problem persists, it
may well be the video card. 

Regards...jmcc
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