[TriLUG] Funky Hardware Problem

[David A. Cafaro]

Just curious does windows still lock when starting the video if you
first boot the Linux then reboot to Windows (warm boot vs cold boot)?

I had a problem where Windows would blue screen on a cold boot, but if I
first boot to Linux then rebooted into windows it worked fine.  Windows
need Linux to initialize the cards for it before it could use them.  Of
course, this was a dual card system (one AGP, one PCI, both Nvidia using
Nvidia drivers).

-David

On Sun, 2005-12-25 at 09:32 -0500, Brian Henning wrote:
> Merry Christmas, everyone!
>    Got a sort of hardware issue (I think) going on here..  But it's got me  
> stymied because it manifests in Windows but not in Linux.  Here's the  
> background:
> 
> About a week ago, my primary HD died (Good ol' IBM DeathStar...developed  
> corrupt sectors) and Windows stopped booting.  So I replaced the drive  
> last night and reloaded Windows once...oops, drive letters assigned really  
> stupidly (primary was K:..)...twice, okay, drive letters are what I want,  
> load video drivers---lockup.  Hard.  Okay, this is pre-SP2 media, so  
> reload a third time and go straight for SP2...which includes released  
> drivers for my video cards (both nVidia GeForce cards, one AGP, one PCI,  
> have worked together flawlessly thus far)...set my resolution on my  
> primary display, activate the secondary...lockup.  Hard.  Back to ground  
> zero, where Windows won't finish booting at all.
> 
> And yet, Linux still continues to run both my heads concurrently with  
> absolutely no issues whatsoever.
> 
> I'm thinking maybe it's possible that I jostled the secondary video card  
> when I was replacing the HD (it's rather tight inside my case), but it  
> strikes me so odd that it would only affect one OS and not another.  So am  
> I nuts here?  I'm going to try reseating all my PCI cards later today, but  
> does anyone read this and go "oh yeah, I know what is causing that..."?
> 
> Thanks a ton!
> ~Brian
> 
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