Linux in my school: part 2

sisob

I installed Mandrake 8.2 on one of the cheep-ass underpowered pc's in my school library today. Adn my god is it better then windows. The intenet is about 3 times faster

I think i stand a good chance of getting rid of windows if i can iron out this one problem:

The screen flickers when the hd is beening used a lot. I'm guessing it's an irq or other bios setting because the flickering starts the second lilo starts loading the kernel , ie. its not an X issue.

I don't have access the bios yet(gotta find out the password) and I'm hopeing I can fiddle with some settings to get it working when I do.

Just wondering if anyone has any experience with this?

Duffman

LoL, would love to see the bum's reaction when faced with that particular challenge..

Good work oh mighty keeper of the key..

P3nfold

You can reset your bios by unplugging the cmos battery i believe. Leave it out for a minute and place it back in, all your bios settings should be reset to default and your password should be blank.

Peace and elbow grease,
Penfold
http://Penfold.slackroot.com
"/me throws xf86config in /dev/null | X will learn to fj33r me"

Static M.e.

You can disable the bios password by removing a jumper inside
on the m/b , its usually easy to spot eg ,"pass"
if you get stuck post on the security board with your details/spec

flamegrill

what bios version is it?

award bios's usually have loads of defaults that work.

e.g. AWARD, AWARD_SW, 589589

there are a few more out there and there are plenty of dodgy sites with this info on them.

Regards,

Paul