On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:45:52PM +0000, James Caldow wrote: >It is by no means a high spec computer, (Athlon 900MHz, 512Mb PC133 SDRAM, 80Gb > Hard Drive, ATI Radeon 9250 128Mb Graphics Card), but as I say it has been > running well for months now. I am no expert on hardware failures, but you may consider cleaning the dust out of your case. Try running the computer for a while with the case open and see if the fans on the graphics card and CPU are spinning. > I suspect it may have more to do with Hardware than the OS as I have also run > Knoppix on it out of curiosity. It was equally slow. Good idea. It does sound like a hardware problem. You didn't do any major software changes, though, did you? I have never tried them, but I know that there are many programs that can diagnose hardware problems or at least make the hardware work extremely hard and fail if it is defective. Some words to search are memtest or mem86 and GIMPS (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search) torture test. > The problems begin as soon as I am logged into the system. The cursor > will move very, very slowly, if at all. This sounds like a graphics card problem. Try turning off X and doing something non-graphics intensive like compiling a kernel or running a torture test for GIMPS. Good luck. -- Steven Wheelwright sjwheel@gmail.com It's never not now. PGP Fingerprint: 809E 9E32 907D 7619 2BED 8764 108D F31C 8927 1E3F
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