8.04 Worked but now locks up computer

[vnzjunk]

Hello

I recently upgraded from an earlier version of Ubuntu (I believe it was 6.xx to Hardy 8.04. I first tried the live CD and it booted and worked fine. So then I used GParted, re partitioned the Linux space on my hard drive and did a clean install from the Live CD. Everything went fine and booted and worked great every time I booted it up after the install for several sessions/days.

After not using the computer for several days I turned it on this morning and the computer froze up after the log in screen and after playing the music. The screen display became hard to read, not clear and precise like before. The mouse froze and the only way to power down was to hit the power on/off button. After several attempts to boot, I put the live disk in the machine and it booted and ran flawlessly. Still no boot from the hard drive.

I am kinda sure that I scrambled something in the system files in a previous power down but have no idea where to turn now.

My machine is a dual boot Xp/Ubuntu Compaq Deskpro, 1G Pentium 3 with about 380Mb memory, 20G hard drive with about 10G Ubuntu partitian. Dual booting has worked fine since it was setup over a year ago.

Any ideas on a fix? Last resort I could re install 8.04 but kind of want the education of the fix process if possible.

Any ideas?

Thanks.........Mark

[geekATlarge]

Mark, I've fixed a similar problem on my system. Look at Failed to initialized HAL, can't mount USB, log-out icon locks-ups (http://http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=806813)

[vnzjunk]

Geekatlarge

Thanks for your post. Unfortunately the link you give doesn't work. Could you check it and either correct it or post some details here?

Thanks

Mark

[dstew]

Here is the corrected link that the previous poster used: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=806813

If you think your problem is identical, you can follow the recommendations there. I would suggest trying to fix the display first. Boot in recovery mode, and choose xfix. Then, resume normal boot. Did that help you get a usable display? If so, look in the System --> Administration --> Hardware Drivers for a display driver. Enable it if one is present. Reboot. Then, do
gksudo displayconfig-gtkfor further reconfiguration options.

[vnzjunk]

Thanks for the reply. I will check it out.

Mark