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Neither of those things helped any other ideas? When the system boots up I switch to verbose mode so I can see what is going on and the last step before the moniter switches off is it claim's an ip addy.

So you think it is related to the NVidea Card? I figured if it made it through the install and the startup that meant it worked fine. Odd

I have burned the three mandrake 9.2 iso's download from VT's mirror and installed them on a Linux partition created fresh by Partition Magic prior to my install and after the entire setup is done I am prompted to reboot the machine and take the media out. I do this and when choosing to boot into Linux from the bootloader ( I am trying to setup a dual boot Mandrake/XP box) it runs through the startup process gets right past the part where it establishes an IP address and then the screen goes black. Nothing else happens, I can still hear the hard drive spining and the keyboard and mouse are still lit up. Any ideas whats going on? If it was my video card (Nvidea GeForce3 Ti 200) then wouldn't the problems arise before that? I can't get into the login screen or anything. Please help... Odd