From: "Geo." 

In bios turn off bios update, see if that makes a difference.

Geo.

"Ned"  wrote in message
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> I burned a Knoppix 3.2 CD-ROM and booted it up today.  It ran and found
> nearly all my devices.  I was quite impressed.  I liked the new KDE too.
>
> Then I did a shutdown.  It got to the end and ejected the CD, and I
pressed
> Enter as it instructed.  Nothing, nada.  I did a hard reset and again
> nothing, no boot, no POST, just a blank screen and a solid HD indicator
> light.  That scared me, I hadn't ever seen that hard a crash.  Powered off
> for a minute, power on and the same thing.
>
> I had to erase the CMOS (not an easy task with the tower under the desk)
and
> it finally booted.  I had to reset all the BIOS settings, of course, but
> that was easy.
>
> Now I'm scared to death to boot Knoppix again.  I've got the Mandrake 9.1
> CDs ready to go, so that's the next adventure in Linux-land.  I did do an
> update to 9.1 but it left me with no way to boot Mandrake.  Even the boot
> disk won't work.
>
> --
> -- Ned --
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>

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