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Bloat
He said, "Toasters don't just turn bread into toast, they are also used to warm frozen waffles. What you see before you is really a breakfast food cooker. When the breakfast cooker is plugged in, users should see a cowboy boot on the screen. Users click on it and the message 'Booting UNIX v.

ASUS AGP Hell... HELLp!!!!!!! Please!!!!
However, Win98 hangs at boot time, leaving just the MS boot screen. Even after it gets booted after a long time, it is frozen with a blue background. After I replaced AHA-2930 with an AHA-2940 card, this problem goes away.... So something is wrong with AHA-2930+Windows98. Another strange thing is that,

Safe mode
Boot into Safe Mode and open Device Manager and look at the Display adapter listing. Delete any extra adapters. Run regedit and look at the following key: audio however approx 2 or 3 minutes into a game the video card freezes (i think) with an audible buzz from speakers , screen and computer are frozen solid .

Frozen during installation
... in that case is to go into the bios, during the dell screen, and then exit it. for some reason it will then bypases the black frozen screen. comp. specs. I didn't see anything in the Event Viewer, I think that might be, because the problem is happening before the windows boot screen. let me know if you have

Ubuntu on a Mac
Clemens Resanka clem...@bigfoot.com comp sys palmtops pilot Hi all, When turning on my Handspring Visor deluxe today it was frozen. A soft reboot did not help (the boot screen won't go away, turning off the device is not possible anymore), so I had to do a hard reset. 1 year ago this also happened.

Custom boot disk creation help
Sandy anonym...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsme systemtools I can't get my computer to boot up in safe mode. I have tried hitting the F8 key and also All that happens is that my computer comes up to its normal boot screen with the cursor frozen and I have to manually shut the computer off.

Frozen Up! Help!
drasdoREM...@usa.net alt windows95 When I reset my system, after the usual windows boot screen, I get a blank black screen with the egg timer icon frozen in the centre. At this stage the hard disk is thrashing rythmically (matron) and this persists for 8 minutes (now down to 2 mins after restoring slightly earlier

Hehe ;)
The system would act as if frozen and eventually work but got loads of the same errors. The shop I fiinally took it to simply took it apart completely and reassembled. On boot, about 50% of the time the boot screen comes to a complete halt at the white screen, and with the blue status bar at 50%.

Samsung 172v TFT with O2
Now the mouse is frozen again. Ah, Ctrl-Alt-Del finally responded, now the restart sequence is engaged. It's been going for a couple minutes now, slowly ending apps one at a time. Finally, the boot screen. Pretty shitty. -- When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Shutdown / Restart problems
On 4/10/2006 at 9:39 AM, in message <YSv_f.3083$vF3.2...@prv-forum2.provo.novell.com>, Christopher Kozely<ckoz...@mail.pf> wrote: Problem: Linux part is freezing just after selecting "install (2d option) on the boot screen. More: I just got the kit and I am testing the new software. Problem is that in the self

Trouble with "new" 8RDA3+
... The monitor does a brief full-screen cyan flickering when the screen turns from "Welcome to O2" to the system boot screen (NOTE: neither the welcome screen, Also, the monitor seems to get "locked/frozen": The ON/OFF switch doesn't work anymore (it can't be turned OFF if it's ON), until I shutdown the O2,

P5-120 Bios Error Tone ?
We left the computer on, seemingly frozen, and were poking around the diagnostics kit and reading the manual when *suddenly* the Windows boot screen poped up, scrolling blue-white line and all. It took about four minutes, but it happened, and after another blank screen for a minute or so, Windows loaded nomally.

Linux install freezes just after selecting "install" in the menu
the screen darkens for 1/2 a second or so (as if the video capabilities of the machine are being interrogated) and then the same white boot screen with the black text I've pasted above comes back on and the machine is completely frozen. I'm happy to test any proposed or attempted fixes. thank you very much for your

Banking Industry Adopts Java and Linux
When I came back, the screen was grayscale with an Apple in the middle (like the boot screen in X) but with a frozen line of static or snow horizontally crossing the screen. Attempts to reboot using the intstall disk gave me a flashing ?, as did booting without the CD. Okay, no OS. Booting from the CD using my OS

A4000 freezing - Mine too, help!
You have a spyware/virus problem if the computer does boot much faster without being connected to the internet. Hope that this helps. "KrazE" wrote: Last known good in this case is useless. That should only be used if you cannot get past the log on screen. Once you've 'logged in' even slow as frozen molasses,

CMOS reset SE440BX-2
BIOS rev. is listed at the top of the first boot screen, about three lines down. You can find current BIOS's on Soyo's site. If you sound card wants to use IRQ 5 I get a blue screen at this point and I hit enter to terminate, the blue screen goes away, but my computer is frozen, so I CTRL+ALT+DLT to restart.

HELP!
No boot screen, just a series of 3 x 1-1/2 second tones and nothing. This happened after a shutdown when trying to start up again. Namely a slow blinking cursor in upper left corner of black screen, then Desktop comes up, but with frozen mouse pointer, then a short black screen, then desktop again and all is

SA6R Boot issues
Keeping in mind that the multiplier is fixed (frozen) in Intel CPU's, the only settings that have a true impact in that situation are the FSB and ratio settings. I have celeron 700 with 133 memory and when I change to higher or lower speeds the first boot screen always reports back a 700 Mhz celeron with a 10.5

Computer freezes while on Windows 98 Screen
Slink I take it is the next semi-frozen, or about to be frozen version? No, when I had it in /etc/fstab previously, exactly as its in there now, it was fully r/w. Paul built me a 2.1.131 kernal, which gets to the penguin sign and some other trash graphics garbage (in full color) as the first boot screen,

Help! Soyo 6BA+IV or P3 problem?
Recovery proceeds properly, reboot produces same screen as above; all discovery complete but frozen at bottom of screen. BTW, if keyboard F2 is pressed early in boot process BIOS correctly indicates planned entry into setup. After freeze occurs no keyboard activity is acknowledged including CTRL-ALT-DEL.