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I can tell you now. NEVER. I set up my machine to duel boot and made kde and my old win98 look as close to each other as possible. My buddy (WM employ) came over hopped on the computer cruised the net, played quake3 for and hour and checked his email. Never once did he notice untill he tried to shut it down. LMAO He's trying out Mandrake 9 on his computer now.

I know this sounds stupid since you've used Mandrake before but... Have you checked the Mandrake 9 disk md5sums? Are the cdrom and hard drive on the same cable? I had a problem with them, had to put each on a separate chanel. Can you change the cdrom out to see if its just not a buggy cdrom? Could be a mem chip issue also. Can you switch out the chips? Do you have plug and pray turned off? Just grasping for ideas here.

I've never had an onboard vidio card before so... Is there a way to turn off the OB vidio card in the bios? Have you tried setting up the system without the second card and then installing it and the new drivers for it? you might have to edit some config files to tell it not to load the OB vid card at all.

Have you tried running the 'aumix' app to ballance the sound?

I've never had a real problem with it. But then again what were the real problems it had? I've only used Mandrake 9.0. The only little problem I have is if I have a cd in and I'm "looking" at it I can't eject the disc untill I close the "window" to it. Not a real problem to me just a minor inconvenience.

If your using a power supply thats to small( not enough watts) then it cant get all of your little drive motors up to full speed. When the light is not on in the dvd or cdrom drive the motor is off and the drive is just coasting. But when it needs to read it tries to bring the drive up to speed(They read WAY faster than your computer can play the file and sound like music). If your hard drive, CPU fan, power supply fan, cdrom motor and dvd motor are trying to all run at once then even a 1% drop in drive speed(electric power) can make it sound just like an old record player. Cd-rom and DVD drives are supposed to stop reading at a set point and try to speed up the motor if they are not fast enough, but yours could be hovering inside the limit of fast enough for a good data read and not fast enough to speed up the motor. How does it play if your not using everything at once? This also applies the other way. If your using all you power to burn( it takes quite a bit to run that laser). Are you running the wav file off the hard drive? If you are then your asking the hard drive for info from quite a few places at once and of cource it would slow down. The GUI once running has very little info to get from the hard drive, it mostly uses the ram. Unless your accually running a vidio. How does windows do while your doing all this does it handle it better?. My bet is its the same.

www.computers.toshiba.co.uk/ Should get you to the instructions and download area. You'll need a floppy. Hope this helps

If you old hard drive is a slow one (I.E. 5400rpm) and the new one is faster and larger(I.E. 7200rpm) the new does indeed draw a bit more power than the old. It has to be a hardware problem since you are switching hardware to get it to work now.

I don't think you canslow down the sound card. I do think that the new hard drive could draw to much power and slow the dvd's drive motor down thereby making it read slow.

My best idea is just take the linksys stuff you bought back and trade it for the 4 or 5 port router. The setup is the same and then you just plug in the cable modem right into the small router/hub. The combo router/hub is accualy cheaper than a hub and a router seperate. A linux Samba setup to access all the comps is just as easy as windows and you'll even be able to keep a windows box in the system for mom. I'm running 4 boxes now. RedHat, Mandrake and 2 win98. All the comps see each other and trade files. We even game together quite nicely. Good luck.

I can "open" 'files on a windows box like email and such but I can't "run" a "program" on a windows box. Thats just a plain out and out security violation that even windows(yes even them) wouldn't let happen.

Are the hard drive and dvd rom on the same power line? If so maybe the new hard drive requires just enough extra juice to slow the dvd down. Try changing the power line to one coming out of the power supply seperate from the other two. just an idea?

They are a pay for driver. My system is running it though so the only two places it could have come from are VIA when I did a sound driver update or Mandrake 9.0

Have you tried the VIA web site? They have a few patches for the motherboards and linux there don't remember any for the C3 but then again I don't have one of those chips.

The fix carried over. Mandrake 9 loads the same old nvidia drivers as before unless it finds updated drivers then it uses them.

A lot of people seem to have quite a few problems with OO that comes with Mandrake 9. I got around them by downloading and installing OO 1.0.1. I don't seem to have any real problems with it yet. Sorry I can't really help. I sounds like a bad install. Since OO is acually in two places they should not have any affect on one another. You might even be able to use either one from either hard drive if their both in the system.

You'll have to go and edit your LiLo config file but thats a simple thing. Once you find and open it in your editor just remove the lines refering to the windows partition. Then save the file.

I don't know about you guys but mine not only knows when it makes a mistake, it beeps AND cleans up after itself. Just wish my dog did that, but then again he's the one that goes and warms up the car in the morning for me. But If I were you dude just try a totally new linux reload. It sounds like a iso/disc problem or bad computer parts.

If your in KDE Goto the Start Application>Configuration>KDE>LookandFeel>Fonts. There you cab choose and font you have loaded and also you can choose to anti-alais them. Don't use gnome so I can't help there. And the install fonts thing worked for me. Sorry. Hope this helps.

We'll need a little more info than that to help you. Give us all you can about you're install and hardware.

You could try using partition magic and just shink the windows partition down to nothing or just remove it all together. Format for ext2 or 3 and mount it as a linux partition. You could use it as a long turm storage area or a linux back up spot.

What about trying Gimp. Once you have the right size you can save a blank as a template.

I don't believe that you can execute a command on a remote computer with Samba. Though I think that you can run a program on your computer thats stored on a remote one if yours has the ability.I think you'll have to Telnet into it to have the ability of remote executiion.

Thanks you for the point in the right direction! It was a permision problem. Just had to chmod +x and the thing works. And yes in my previous fumbling I did get the kwrite screen to pop up quite often. Well thats one new skill I just learned. First time I have ever had to play with that command. Thanks again. Hope one day I can help you out.

No dice. Just tried it again and nothing. Not even after a reboot. Is their somekind of special extention I should put on the file or some command to explicitly tell the xscreensaver to start.