Im trying to boot my pc with opensuse 10.3 but today it started with the pc speaker sayin something and the screen is black.
Anyone heard of this?
You likely updated your kernel or xorg, and need to adjust your x11 setup (or graphic driver) again.
Placing “Virus?” in the title is not likely to get you the response you need to sort this. This is not likely a virus. Frankly, I’ve never read of a Linux users being infected by Virus.
Reboot your PC, type “3” (no quotes) in the grub boot menu option line (just press 3 and it will go there) and then login to the text/ascii prompt as a regular user. Once logged in, type “su” (no quotes, and enter root password) to get root permissions. Then backup your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file with:
cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.newbackup
then test to see if your chip is 0 or 1 with:
sax2 -p
if chip 0, then setup X window graphic driver with a vesa driver:
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
then after configuring your graphics, exit sax2 and type “exit” to get rid of root permissions. Type “whoami” to confirm you are not root, and if still root, type “exit” again until you are back to a regular user.
Once back to a regular user, type “startx” to get X window. If it works, exit immediately. And then restart your PC with:
su -c ‘shutdown -r now’
and enter root password when prompted. This time do not type 3 in grub boot menu.
If your graphic card supports the vesa mode, that should work.
Ok. Im a noob. Installed suse 2 weeks ago.
Problem is I only got black screen and my pcspeaker is moaning 3 words over and over again.
Please follow my advice.
See my above post.
Nothing happens when i push “3”.
All black screen from startup.
When are you pushing 3 ? When you first turn on your PC, do you get a grub boot menu? (giving you a choice to boot to openSUSE-11.1 or to Windows? or to Safe Settings? ).
Nope. Powerlight on the monitor is just blinking.
Did openSUSE-10.3 work before?
If you could boot before, and if can not even obtain the Grub boot menu, then this reads like a hardware problem to me.
If you are not able to get an initial BIOS screen up, let alone the grub menu, then you almost certainly have a hardware problem. If you think computer is booting ok, I would check your graphics card and cabling first.
Seems like hardware yes. Its like the disks and cdrom dont get power. almost new powersupply too.
Under warranty then? 
On Mon January 12 2009 08:46 pm, deano ferrari wrote:
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galehuset;
Check that all cables, cards and memory modules are fully seated. Sometimes
it is best to remove them and reinstall just to make sure.
P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
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Agreed… most of the time if you have your PC speaker beeping a
pattern on bootup it’s your RAM or video card unseated (or bad) or
something along those lines. An unseated processor also has ugly side
effects though I’m not sure there’s anything to cause the beeping in
that case. Check with your motherboard’s documentation to find out what
the three beeps mean.
Good luck.
oldcpu wrote:
> galehuset;1926406 Wrote:
>> Im trying to boot my pc with opensuse 10.3 but today it started with the
>> pc speaker sayin something and the screen is black.
> Did openSUSE-10.3 work before?
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> If you could boot before, and if can not even obtain the Grub boot
> menu, then this reads like a hardware problem to me.
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Indeed a hardware problem, the voice is something a few BIOS’es come with… it should describe the problem.
If you can’t make out what it’s saying like mentioned earlier, look up the beep code in your motherboards manual (they differ per BIOS/motherboard so we can’t advice you)
If you intend to do the ‘reseating’ (unplugging and plugging back in everything that can be unplugged/plugged in) make sure you’re not statically charged by touching a piece of grounded bare metal or similar. (Wallsocket grounding, paint-stripped part of the heating)
Static discharge on for example a RAM module is a sure way to kill it.
If you have no experience in doing this you may want to contact the place you got the computer from.
Some newer motherboards have an audible voice indicating system problems.
First turn the power off.
The three biggies: is the cpu / cpu fan loose?
Has the graphics card slipped up and partially out of its socket?
Are the sticks of memory well seated into their sockets.
Check those and see if the system boots.
If not, try resetting the bios, which differs from mother board to motherboard, but is usally a jumper or a button next to the large watch battery.
Make sure power is off to reset it.