HookedOnFishing
March 11th, 2010, 07:40 AM
My Gateway MX7515 crashed due to a bad Windows registry thing and was unrecoverable! Have to buy another operating system or pay for a disk to fix whatever corrupted shell32. dll was bad. I tried everything. I removed the drive and recovered my data and confirmed the drive was good. Confirmed memory check was good. First cup Of Ubuntu down.
I burnt a copy of Ubuntu9.10 installed the disk and in an hour I was up and running. Was able to get everything setup and updated within another couple of hours.
I'm watching Youtube videos, printing, and scanning wirelessly with my Brother 495CW, I can connect to my Windows computers on the home network. Everything works as good or faster than windows XP did. Very stable, very fast.
I tried a new install of the 64 bit version, but it did not work very good. Computer would restart with garbled characters and couldn't figure out what to do. Obviously video driver problem. Checked ATI website for my board and found they do not have any Linux drivers for my Model.
Went back and reinstalled 32 bit and I'm back to everything working real good but knowing i'm losing processing power being only 32 bit when I have AMD 4000+ 64 bit processor. And what can I do about the ATi driver problems for my chipset and video?
Still very, very new to this Linux, Ubuntu 9.10. Learning how to check things out now. It is a big new world out here. I can smell what you guys are brewing, and I'm loving it so far!
Thank you everyone!
I burnt a copy of Ubuntu9.10 installed the disk and in an hour I was up and running. Was able to get everything setup and updated within another couple of hours.
I'm watching Youtube videos, printing, and scanning wirelessly with my Brother 495CW, I can connect to my Windows computers on the home network. Everything works as good or faster than windows XP did. Very stable, very fast.
I tried a new install of the 64 bit version, but it did not work very good. Computer would restart with garbled characters and couldn't figure out what to do. Obviously video driver problem. Checked ATI website for my board and found they do not have any Linux drivers for my Model.
Went back and reinstalled 32 bit and I'm back to everything working real good but knowing i'm losing processing power being only 32 bit when I have AMD 4000+ 64 bit processor. And what can I do about the ATi driver problems for my chipset and video?
Still very, very new to this Linux, Ubuntu 9.10. Learning how to check things out now. It is a big new world out here. I can smell what you guys are brewing, and I'm loving it so far!
Thank you everyone!