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paynek716
May 15th, 2010, 04:05 AM
In my haste to install a proprietary wireless driver, I inserted the live CD while Lucid was in the shutting off process. Since then, any boot into Lucid (live CD or installed) gives me a display with a bunch of vertical colored lines.

I can login to the computer, just unable to read anything on the screen. Wireless connection is not working yet but that is another problem.

Computer is a Dell Inspiron 1501 with ATI Radeon Express video driver. Has previously worked with Juanty and Karmic. I have previously seen the lines during bootup but never stayed that way.

I can reformat the HD if needed, just unable to do it in current configuration.

After several reboots this problem went away, will repost if it returns