Hi Mark,

The Live CD that came with SL 4.3 has never worked with this pc. It 
hangs just after it shows you the options for booting. I should try that 
live alpha CD SL 5 that mentioned before. The only way we managed to 
install SL 4.3 was setting all sorts of options at boot.

But I do not think it is a hardware problem because while it is booting 
it is showing the graphics gui.. the cursor, the spinning dots and a 
description of each step.. it is only when it is finished booting and it 
is about to show the login screen that I get the flicker.

Cheers,
Aldo



Mark Whidby wrote:
> Aldo F. Saavedra wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an intel core Duo machine to which I installed SLC 4.3 . It has 
>> worked fine (except for the IRQ 11 message that appears once in a 
>> while).  The only problem I seem to have is that once in a while it 
>> will boot to blank blueish flickering screen...
>>
>> It did it a number of times but sometimes the login screen would 
>> appear allowing you to log in and work with no problem. Sometimes when 
>> you logged out the screen would turn back to the flickering screen.
>>
>> The input still working when the screen flickering because I log in 
>> and then I get a red and black flickering screen. I'm not sure what 
>> the problem is.
>>
>> The graphics card is built in the motherboard so is vesa
>> an appropriate driver? Does Intel have its own drivers?
>> Now the screen only flickers all the time with no chance on the 
>> occasional session. Any ideas are welcome.
> 
> Could it be a hardware problem?
> Have you tried booting from a live CD e.g. Knoppix or the SL live CD?
> 

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