Lost Contact with Monitor, Mouse, and Keyboard

**hamscs** · 12-10-2002, 04:14 PM

I've tried this three times on three Dell Optiplex GX260s. I've booted Knoppix off the latest CD, and everything's worked fine. But when I restart, each computer can no longer recognize the monitor, mouse, and keyboard, and nothing appears to be happening either on the HDD, FDD, or CD-ROM. Anyone else experience anything similar?

It's quite disappointing to run Knoppix and then have three broken machines on my hands.

Thanks!

**Dave_Bechtel** · 12-11-2002, 04:32 AM

--I don't know *why* this is happening (please post system specs, i.e. RAM, processor, installed hardware) but here's a possible workaround:

--Try ' halt ' as root when ready to shutdown. If the PC doesn't actually shut off after ward, hit the Hardware Reset button and see if that fixes it. If it shuts off, I would think that would solve the problem.

Originally Posted by hamscs

I've tried this three times on three Dell Optiplex GX260s. I've booted Knoppix off the latest CD, and everything's worked fine. But when I restart, each computer can no longer recognize the monitor, mouse, and keyboard, and nothing appears to be happening either on the HDD, FDD, or CD-ROM. Anyone else experience anything similar?

It's quite disappointing to run Knoppix and then have three broken machines on my hands.

Thanks!

**hamscs** · 12-20-2002, 02:44 PM

The machines I'm installing Knoppix on are:

- Dell Optiplex GX260s.
- P4 1.8 GHz, 256 MB RAM.
- Windows XP Pro, Version 2002.

I'm going to download another copy of Knoppix and then try again on one more machine.

Thanks.