Bob Stia wrote:
> Hello Sluggers,
>
> Been trying to convert my son from Windoz to Linux for several years now.
> Finally he had enough of the Windoz problems that he agreed to let me
> install my SuSE 9.2 on his machine.
>
> Popped in my 9.2 disk, the SuSE splash screen came up and then I got a
> message in a little square box that stated:
> "Out of Range." and gave the following numbers. "Hf46.4 Vf 86hz" and
> gave the proper ranges of, "30-80khz Hf & 55-75 khz Vf" So his
> monitor, a 17" lcd is evidently out of range. The machine froze at
> this point and would not proceed. Have never seen this before. Has
> anyone seen this before or can help me get around this?
>
> Related, or maybe not, and the final straw was, when he couldn't get
> past this "blue screen" message in W98. This was coincidentally ? or
> not ? right after he had installed a new additional DVD drive. The
> message was:
> An OE exception has occurred at 0028:00000002 in VxD ---This was
> called from 0028:C1C 33500 in VxD voltrack (04) blah blah,blah. Is
> this the same thing as what I saw in the SuSE install screen? (If you
> know or even care)
>
> Anyway here is my chance. Please help.
>
> Bob S.
>
>
Stupid question: On the two drives (one being a new dvd,) did he jumper
one as a slave?
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