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Maybe it's the hardware that's doing it, i.e. the display more than likely has power, screen saving features. A little more info on your setup would help.

Thanks, the flash drive worked great, new hd installed all looks good.

Ok got my flash drive today, it's recognized, but why is not empty???? Not sure what to do, can I erase what's on it? Then create a startup disk? Never used one before, amazed how small it is!!!!
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If it's not a nvidia problem, then a problem with video connection with the display.

There's not much difference, both are fast, Chrome by Google is based off of Chromium.

In an earlier post:

"I'm with Ubuntu for a couple of weeks, I used Mint as a VM installation on a Win8...

IF it doesn't seem to be hardware, why not replace Chrome with Chromium.

If your not big in MS Access, then format.

Also have a flash drive on order, just went with a 2 gig for $3.99. I remember reading an article way back on Windows NT, the author wrote "NT has support for a ridiculously large hard drive 4 gig",...

Yes it has a USB ports, never used flash drives, don't even know what they look like, sucks getting old

Well I'm a tinker, tweeker, whatever you want to call it. I have created most of my problems by doing so. I have tried to tweak this operating system since 2008. I have learned to just use it out...

I thought I would be done with this problem today, but the .iso is to big for the the CD-R, so I ordered 1 DVD-R, I only ordered 1 cause I never done dvds with this drive. I feel so stupid I worked...

I'm sure I won't give you any answers, I'm an idiot at this Linux stuff, but the errors you get are the same I got went my HD started to fail.

I know it's no big help, but I'm just doing this to...

Ok new plan, I forgot about Monday being a holiday so no CDs until Tuesday. I have a 4 gig HD of the 40 pin connector type, set it up as a slave and hook it up to the CD-ROM cable. The BIOS...

Thanks

Yes the CPU nows 64 bit was using it, but went back to 32 when I started having problems don't know why. I thing you answered my ?.

My plan is to burn a cd with the 64 bit .iso.
reconfigure the...

My replacement hd will be here today, I downloaded the .iso 64 bit version of Ubuntu 13.04, I'm currently 32 bit.

If I use the 64 bit version to prep the new hd, will I be able to copy my home...

Thanks again in terminal who:

mike@ubuntu:~$ who
mike tty7 2013-05-21 20:36 (:0)
mike pts/1 2013-05-21 21:12 (:0)

I guess I have to visit this forum more often, I might...

Oops the drive is 200g not 2, anyway I have a new 320g on the way that's all I need.

but what is this:
mike@ubuntu:~$ uptime
19:34:07 up 10:00, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.03, 0.06

I'm...

Ok my hard drive has is going south, thanks for who helped redmk2d, efflandt, and mcduck

Agreed, but that doesn't mean I can't have fun with it. this hdd going to get formatted, llformated, then formatted again, if that doesn't help it gets the plasma cutter!.

I think I'm getting somewhere, I think the hdd is dying, it's 3yrs 9months 18 days old. I'm just hoping for couple of days of use before it takes a total crap

Ok figured out the SMART stuff it was not enabled in the BIOS.

SMART Data and Tests tells me that there are 763 sectors failing. 763 in a 2 gig drive is not that many. the hdd is close to 4 yrs...

OK, now what?

Ok did that, I could click every option but the SMART Data and tests.

I'm to starting think I should just to low level format the hard drive, and start fresh.

My first thought was the hard drive failing, but I never get any errors to hardware failure. Not sure how to check SMART status of hd with Disks tool, does that need to be installed?

Tried to get...