[olug] dual dvi card

[Jay Swackhamer]

Freezes very early in the power up stage?

Do you mean as soon as you power the machine on, before it starts to  
boot from disk, or after the kernel is booting?

Quoting T M <to.the.brink at gmail.com>:

> hi all,
>
> i've been running linux at home/work since the mid 90's, and am
> finally having a hardware problem.
>
> in my p4 dell box, my nvidia 6600GT dual dvi agp card runs fine.  the
> card uses a direct power cable from the power supply, just like a hdd.
>
> the same card in either of my amd hp boxes causes the machine to
> freeze very early in the power up stage.  thinking that power supply
> was in adequate i bought a couple different ones with the correct
> specs from Fry's. but this did not solve the problem.
>
> all previous video cards ran fine in all my boxes, the latest being a
> dual dvi agp card, an nvidia quadro4 980 xgl -- which was good for
> 1600x1200.
>
> any suggestions?  my pref would be to keep the 6600gt and get it
> running in one of the boxes, which are more quite than the dell box
> and have adequate memory.
>
> if i need to put more than say $120 into this, i'll just wait for a
> deal on a dell pcie system.
>
> any new video card would need dual dvi ports, and be capable of
> supporting two 1920x1200 panels.
>
> thanks in advance,
> mike
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