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Jaydog1212
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29 May 2010, 3:25 pm

I'm trying to install Mint on an old computer. It meets all the requirements. When I go to install it, it starts to load and then displays vertical lines and they start flashing. What is going on?:wall:

The initial screen displays - green screen says something to the effect "automatically booting..."

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29 May 2010, 3:43 pm

Hurray, Fixed- the jumper setting was off on the hard drive. I think it was confusing it.



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30 May 2010, 2:01 am

The jumper setting shouldn't of done ANYTHING like that.

It'd be great if you could sum what was wrong, what you did and how it affected the system up for a bug report.
This could either be a small bug, or one that's buried down and could affect other things.



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30 May 2010, 9:53 am

Thats a problem with the graphics card. It probably didnt read the type correctly and then spewed garbage on the screen.


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30 May 2010, 2:25 pm

Jookia wrote:
The jumper setting shouldn't of done ANYTHING like that..



You wouldn't think. The only hard drive was connected to the master part of the cable and the hard drive had the slave jumper on. It would intermittently show up in the BIOS. So I checked the cables and the jumper (I couldn't remember the history of the computer). I put the jumper on master and relaunched the installation and there were no issues. I thought for sure something was wrong with the graphics card (physically/compatibility).