On Saturday 07 June 2003 10:22, Ben Francis wrote:
Every time I boot the system from cold it freezes half way through booting X at a sickly grey screen and an immobile X cursor in the centre. If the computer has been turned on a while and I shut it down, it boots up again fine.
Sounds like X is starting but the windows manager isn't. It could be a graphics card problem. But whenever I have had these "starting from cold the first time" problems it has usually been down to the Power Supply, normally however that manifests itself at the Power on Self Test stage in the bios and not after the OS has loaded.
If you live anywhere near Bury St Edmunds you are welcome to pop over to my office and borrow bits to swap out to help you isolate the fault.
Wayne