Problem with Fedora Core 8 Insallation

[Phoenixtwo1987]

Okay First here is the rig that I am using to place Fedora Core 8 on.

AMD Athlon 4200 X2
2GB RAM
40GB IDE Hard Drive
HP DVD R/RW IDE Drive
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
ASUS Deluxe SLI-A8N Motherboard Socket 939

This is a frankenstein computer made from parts of old PC's and I wanna use it as an Extra computer and possibly a FTP sever for personal use once i get a bigger hard drive. The hard drive itself needs to be reformatted and have fedora core installed on it. I booted off the DVD with Fedora on it and ran the install. The media test went fine and the disc ejected. Then I told it to continue and the disc tray closed again and it started detecting my hardware. It picked up the AMD processor and the told me the exact model of my graphics card. Then the screen blacks out and the little X appears in the center of the screen where the mouse is. Then the screen turns to a messy looking black and white screen. The mouse pointer can be moved around but clicking and right clicking does nothing. Is this a graphics Problem? How can I fix this?

[Phoenixtwo1987]

So I tried installing in TEXT MODE little did I know that this means The OS is TEXT ONLY and command line. I have no Idea how to use this. At least It installed. Since the normal mode was giving me that black and white screen but is there a way to get a GUI after I installed in text mode?

EDIT: Okay so I got into runlevel 5 by using init 5 then it brings me to the GUI form of the login screen. As soon as i log in though I'm back to the problem with the black and white screen like my graphics card isnt working. Its weird though because I can see the login screen crystal clear and the boot menu that fedora pops up upon boot looks fine but when it tries to install in regular mode or when i init runlevel 5 and login I get this black and white screen. Whats going on here?

[Phoenixtwo1987]

Okay So I tried booting to Damn Small Linux on this computer and it boots all the way to where it detects hardware and boots the kernel. After this the screen goes black and just sits there. I don't know what the deal is with this. I'm downloading Fedora 9 and gonna see if that works any different.

Anyone got any Advice?

[SeanC]

Perhaps it's defaulting to too high of a resolution or (if it's a CRT) refresh rate?

Try re-running the X Server configuration. Unfortunately I'm not near my Fedora box so I can't give you the command for it. But try setting only lower resolutions, like 800x600 or 1024x768.

[Phoenixtwo1987]

Sorry I'm new to linux what is the X server configuration? And I haven't been able to find a way to change the resolutions in text only mode. Thanks for responding by the way .

[SeanC]

I can tell you how to do it on Debian but not Fedora because my Fedora boxes are CLI only.

For Debian you run this command as root: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Fedora doesn't have the dpkg utility as it's specific to the Debian-based distros which use .DEB install files.