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Beos Boot problems (Video card)
Name: Inner_logic Date: November 26, 2003 at 14:08:23 Pacific OS: Beos R5 personal CPU/Ram: P4
Comment:
I'm trying To boot up Beos R5 personal on my computer, and it loads up the floppy disk fine, but at the loading screen thing, after it hits the 2'st light (video card i'm guessing) it reboots my computer.
I have a P4, 256 Ram, Geforce 4 MX, And it's installed on a WinXP computer.
I've been looking for a while now and don't know what to do. Can anyone, ANYONE help?
Name: Bobthearch Date: November 26, 2003 at 16:07:41 Pacific
Reply:
The video card you have shouldn't prevent BeOS from booting. It will boot into black-and-white whithout adding a video driver though.
I suspect the problem is with your P4 processor. I recommend trying the BeOS Max distribution that the P4 patch, or easier yet install onto a PII or PIII computer, if you have one available.
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