As I look back on the asus board and its eventual demise it’s clear there were additional failures before hand that came together. When the 160 gig drive failed it could of been part of static discharge and the other part it was a used drive with an unknown history.

Beyond that when watching netflix on Pauls computer it runs smoothly and streams without a problem while on the asus board using socket 754 with 2.5 gigs of ram within virtualbox there was delays and excessive buffering. Making the stream nearly unwatcheable or very frustrating. It could of also been the emulation used within Virtualbox that may of had something to do with it.

Regardless though first the 160 gig drive failed then the power to the monitors started failing, so I do not know yet at what point that occured but since then the asus board appears failed. Until I solve the failed power or wakeup problem with the monitors there is little that can be done with troubleshooting. For the moment I am reverting back to a much older system to be able to use Ubuntu in my office. Which is what I call – what would otherwise be known as a laboratory, the space where I do much of my exploration into computer technology.

The system I am experimenting with is p4 400 mhz machine with all of 256 megs of memory and two hard drives, one that isjust over 8 gig and another that is approximately 20 gig. Nothing like a power system but good enough for browsing the internet and research into some of the options in resolvin the main machines problems. The same machine was one which I mentioned as part of an experiment in setting it up as a router (http://blog.homeofknatchwa.net/an-experiment-probable) though that was put aside for the moment to see if I could figure out what is going on with the other system. Along with lives events sometimes things are put aside for the future.

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Raymond Marr

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