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The new system booted without errors :-) I have about a 50/50 success rate. I usually miss something. Now i am emerging gnome, it told me it needs to compile just under 300 packages. It should be finished tomorrow when I wake up.

That statement pretty much rules out windows(drivers) being your problem. You should start ruling out faulty pieces of hardware.

I am pretty certain they are different(they share similarities), but it just seems linux names them similar(/dev/sda) edit added later// here is one article http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles.php?id=19

I am still learning alot about hardware. Does SCSI mean scuzzy or can the mean SATA also?

SATA? I would have guessed most all of your sytems used IDE. Most all computers came with IDE, untill just recently.

I am going to clean install today. Hopefully that will help with the FF issue. I made such a mess of my system, in the name of fun, Its needs to be formatted and rebuilt. I was trying to sort through some stuff I did a year ago, and was lost. The time and effort it would take me to figure out what I did , could be better spent on doing a clean install. I also noticed when I reboot, it takes along time when mounting file systems, which leads me to believe my file system may be corrupted.

For me FF crashes once in awhile at one site....CNN. I have no idea what code at the site causes this. Mine crashes whenever I click on links. It does not seem to matter which ones. I mentioned in the other post rebuilding my system, i realize that may not fix the firefox problem, but I just wanted to to it anyways.

My firefox just seems to be getting worse and worse. Other then deleting my profile and reinstalling it, I am not sure why it is crashing so much. I decided I am going to rebuild my gentoo system, its been a long time since I have redone it. I have such a cobbled mess, I am not even sure how it is put together anymore. I have been running it with just 256mb of memory(I sold off half its memory) with an athlon xp 2000. I have an athlon xp 2600 barton, I am going to upgrade it to. I will up the memory to a respectable 512mb. That extra memory and better processor should help compile times. When

In the past I have had problems with firefox randomly crashing. I found deleting my profile fixed it. I am not sure what part of it was corrupted.

Thanks for the heads up.

I deleted the whole directroy ~/.mozilla, now it is working.

I just tried as root the following command killall -u shane I think this will kill every process owned by shane. It instantly kicked me out of my login session back to the gdm login screen. I logged back in, and it still won't let me start firefox. Even though the message says I have a firefox process running, I am certain I do not.

I was having some problems with firefox, so I deleted my profile. Now I am not able to start a new session, I am getting an error about firefox already running. I first tried logging out to kill all processes associated with my login session. That did not work. I have even tried to reboot my system. I am still getting this error. I tried doing ps -e | grep firefox, but it is not showing any process running. Any ideas to why it is doing this?

When I was running rc2 for a while, I was getting the occasional blue screen. I am hoping after vista comes out, and new chipset drivers are released, that problem will not happen any more.

your power supply may be going out, not giving enough juice to the hardrives to run them properly. I had a power supply go bad once, I could here the hardrives randomly shutting down and restarting(I would get some freezing). If you could, just try a new power supply, that may fix your problem. If that is not an option, check the voltages using a multimeter http://www.hardwarelogic.com/news/136/ARTI...2006-03-25.html

I am just vaguely researching. I don't really have a coding project. If I wanted to try coding something with vb.net or c#.net do I need to purchase(yuck) something from microsoft? Is visualstudio.net a necessity?

Thanks for the links, those are pretty cool :-)

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That is why I asked if you had your old video card(or onboard video), so you could use it for a few days to see if that alleviates your problem. It is not really fair to send back a good card as bad without really knowing. It would be a good idea to reseat(pull out and put back in) all of your cards and ram. As to the speaker, it may just unplug, but some are soldered directly to the motherboard.

I just bought an inexpensive brother myself for $80. I love it. The HP that sethook mentioned also looks nice for the price. I was considering that one for a while.

I am not certain(defective or conflicting). Of all of the things you mentioned, the video card just seemed like the most likely cause. It would seem unlikely that the proc or memory would account for that problem. This is just a hunch, but that seems to be the way I diagnose most stuff. I have worked on a computer in the past that was beeping irregularly. I took it apart, including removing the motherboard, put it back together, it has worked fine ever since.

If I was to guess, I would say your video card is the culprit. If you have your old video card, I would run that for a while. See if that clears things up. It would be a good idea to run memtest86 also.

I know why it did not work as expected for me. I assumed the script needed to write to the /usr directory, so I ran it as root. I just tried it again as regular user, then it did guess properly

My main point was the install script does not work with out the user knowing the location of your mozilla installation. Most novice users run the script, then are hit with the question, "please enter the directory of your mozilla installation". I did not even know. I had to take the time and look around for it. I guess I used a whereis command. If they are going to make an install script, it should do the installation without needing specific info like that from the user.

holy crap, the installer is over 700 lines. The funny thing is, you still have to tell the installer where to install it. I expected that huge bash script to automatically do it for me . what does the flashplayer.xpt file do? I deleted it, it does not seem to do anything. I found it works well just to copy libflashplayer.so to your ~/.mozilla/plugins directory. This allows flash to work with either firefox or mozilla This method worked for me. Make sure you run this is a regular user, not root. If you run it as root, it will get copied to the wrong directory. Enter these three commands in you