RC4 Install hangs after completion

I installed eCS2RC4 yesterday, and it all went OK. I then configured the 
screen, installed printers, etc., rebooted, and the boot stops when the 
SnapGraphics Logo screen shows up.

The only thing I can imagine is that on my other installations (a beta 3 
and a RC1) the screen is at 1280x1024, 60 refresh rate. On this problem 
install I changed the screen size to 1280x1024 but neglected to change the 
refresh rate so it is still (afaik) at 75 herz. 

Advice on how to get the RC4 to boot all the way through?

TIA,
Clyde

Hi Clyde

Clyde Stauffer wrote:
> I installed eCS2RC4 yesterday, and it all went OK. I then configured the 
> screen, installed printers, etc., rebooted, and the boot stops when the 
> SnapGraphics Logo screen shows up.
> 
> The only thing I can imagine is that on my other installations (a beta 3 
> and a RC1) the screen is at 1280x1024, 60 refresh rate. On this problem 
> install I changed the screen size to 1280x1024 but neglected to change 
> the refresh rate so it is still (afaik) at 75 herz.
> Advice on how to get the RC4 to boot all the way through?
> 
> TIA,
> Clyde
> 


What resolutions and Refresh rates does the screen support? - sounds 
like you may have selected settings it does not like.

Presuming Boot Manager is in use:-

Select the eCS2RC4 installation and press Enter followed by Alt-F1 (at 
the eCS "blob")
At the menu select to reset to vga

You will end up with a system running vga

Not sure if SNAP/Panorama will need reinstalling before you set 
Resolution and Refresh to known working values.

Regards

Peter Brown wrote:

> Hi Clyde

> Clyde Stauffer wrote:
>> I installed eCS2RC4 yesterday, and it all went OK. I then configured
the 
>> screen, installed printers, etc., rebooted, and the boot stops when the

>> SnapGraphics Logo screen shows up.
>> 
>> The only thing I can imagine is that on my other installations (a beta
3 
>> and a RC1) the screen is at 1280x1024, 60 refresh rate. On this problem

>> install I changed the screen size to 1280x1024 but neglected to change

>> the refresh rate so it is still (afaik) at 75 herz.
>> Advice on how to get the RC4 to boot all the way through?
>> 
>> TIA,
>> Clyde
>> 


> What resolutions and Refresh rates does the screen support? - sounds 
> like you may have selected settings it does not like.

> Presuming Boot Manager is in use:-

> Select the eCS2RC4 installation and press Enter followed by Alt-F1 (at 
> the eCS "blob")
> At the menu select to reset to vga

> You will end up with a system running vga

> Not sure if SNAP/Panorama will need reinstalling before you set 
> Resolution and Refresh to known working values.

> Regards

> Pete

Well, I went back and booted to that partition - this time it went through 
fine. I guess the earlier halt was just one of those random glitches. But 
thanks for your reply.

Clyde

Hi Clide,

if it would turn out that your system hangs during boot after a power on 
and works after a boot with C-A-D then you should configure SNAP to use 
only AGP 4x instead of AGP 8x if you are using that. This is a well 
known problem with SNAP.

Best regards
Uwe

Clyde Stauffer wrote:
> I installed eCS2RC4 yesterday, and it all went OK. I then configured the 
> screen, installed printers, etc., rebooted, and the boot stops when the 
> SnapGraphics Logo screen shows up.
> 
> The only thing I can imagine is that on my other installations (a beta 3 
> and a RC1) the screen is at 1280x1024, 60 refresh rate. On this problem 
> install I changed the screen size to 1280x1024 but neglected to change 
> the refresh rate so it is still (afaik) at 75 herz.
> Advice on how to get the RC4 to boot all the way through?
> 
> TIA,
> Clyde