Can only use opensuse in GUI rescue mode?? Was working fine for months

[anika200]

@anika200

Update:

I wanted to follow up on this thread in case it helps someone else.

It turns out the conclusions about a dead video card were not warranted and the video card is working fine.

I found a good way to test the card was to boot an openSUSE live dvd and check out the desktop effects in KDE to see if they are working and running in openGL. This helped me figure out the hardware was working fine.
I would then suggest using a something like http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage to check your memory, harddrives etc…
All the hardware in my system checked out fine and so I came to the conclusion that it was some software glitch.

Story follows:
To add to the oddity of the OS booting problems in my OP I ended up with a completely non-bootable system. This happened after I pulled out a memory stick to write down the specs ( I was going to buy more memory at the same time I was going to purchase a new video card, this never happened).
So after I pulled the memory to look at it there was a boot loop after the system hit plymouth, the gecko would appear for a split second and then a reboot. I re-seated the memory chip and various other things but still boot loop.
I finally started up with the live DVD and everything worked good and hence my conclusion that it was some software glitch.

After some long consideration, I decided to move to a new linux distro that will hopefully not fall down as much as openSUSE did for me. As I reflected back I realized that I had already re-built my system several (3) over the last 1.5 years all for the same reason, booting problems. This is just too much work and so I am trying some other KDE based linux with the hopes it will work out better.

That looked a little negative, it was not. I am still running openSUSE on at least one more pc.