[Tfug] OS Puzzle

[Don Freeman]

Have you tried booting from the live CD? 


Don W. Freeman
Special Projects Manager
Pima Association of Governments
177 N. Church Ave. #405
Tucson AZ 85701
(520) 792-1093 voice
(520) 620-6981 fax

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Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 6:57 PM
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Subject: [Tfug] OS Puzzle

As a bit of history several people helped me to try and solve what I
perceived as a problem with the gnome desktop. Basically during boot the
system halts right after login. I pc is a gateway P4 2.8ghz, 1.5gb memory,
80gb HDD machine. I was successfully using the machine until recently.

After much troubleshooting I decided to swap the "bad" harddrive into my
other machine and it worked perfectly. Had the Ubuntu (ver. 8.10) progress
bar present during boot etc. Placing it the original machine still had the
fault of course but I now know that the S/W on the drive is ok. T then tried
to T/S further by removing the 2 memory cards, one at a time to see if one
of the modules might be bad and no improvement or solution was found so I
have to assume that the memory is o.k.

The video card is part of the mother board and I don't know how to test it
as it does display.

I would like anyone's ideas.

THANKS

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