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April 24th, 2009, 05:43 AM
I don't know if this is a error or not. The machine is using 9.04 ubuntu jaunty. I tell it to shut down, the pc speaker beeps twice, then the screen goes blank, I see text on the screen for a few seconds, but it seems that when displaying this text the resolution has suddenly jumped from normal 1280x800 to 640x480, as a result the text is extreamly large, and does not fit entirely on the screen, all I can read of the text is 'ok' at the end of the sentance, after the one to two seconds, the screen goes black again, and the computer turns off.

I have also had it tell me, once I tried to include the third party repositores that they don't exist, or some other problem is accuring.
it is not entirly needed, so I am not too worried about that.

Does anyone know about this text on the screen, I have not seen this with the shutdown of any other distribution of ubuntu before.
It may help to know
it is a dell dimension 2400 desktop, 2.4ghz, 512mb ram, 495 mb readable by 9.04. 40gb hard disk.
I am working on this computer to give to one of my customers, so it is currently in oem install mode, with oem temporary user. have not yet prepaired it for shipping.

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April 24th, 2009, 05:37 PM
the text no longer appears at shutdown, however the system does beep from pc speaker 3 times before starting shutdown. after it reads the ethernet conenction, and confers with floppy and dvd/cd drives, shuts down, the screen is blank during all of this. I will assume that what ever issue it had is gone, the beeps may be normal with ubuntu communicating with dell bios. Just a guess, but it sounds logical at least.