Laptops :: reboot problems on an old compaq presario 1620

I'm new to DSL but not new to linux. I've got several small irks with DSLs inital setup that I had to work out. Right now though I seem to have a bug where if I use the system reboot command to reboot it hangs after flashing the compaq bios logo. Disabled all the power management stuff in the lappys bios. Using noacpi in grub... Ideas?

mess with the pci settings in the bios...that is what i had to do. What messages are you seeing? Where is it hanging in the boot process.

No errors, when it comes back up it just shows a visually garbled display and then fades to black.

Quote (gnuperman @ Mar. 21 2007,07:57)

No errors, when it comes back up it just shows a visually garbled display and then fades to black.

I have DSL running on an old Compaq Presario 1270, and to my surprise, I was able to update the BIOS to their last release via hp.com. You might consider doing this, since perhaps the problem is related to a bug in the BIOS. As usual, beware when updating a BIOS, you run the risk of messing things up entirely I have been told.

Also, I noticed in the bios for my Compaq you can restore to defaults. You might try this first before doing anything else. Hope this helps!

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