I finally found time to finish assembling my new athlon box and it booted on the first attempt! I should have known it was a bad omen...lol Loaded all the software over a four hour period...and played with it for over an hour, then shut down the system. I tried to boot the system back up two hours later. It failed to boot because of drive errors. I ran scandisk and there were numerous bad blocks shown at the end of the drive. I isolated the bad blocks and rebooted the machine...it ran fine. The next morning, I tried to boot the machine and got the same drive error message! I ran scandisk again and it showed more bad blocks! I took the drive out of the machine and took it back to Staples for a replacement. I installed a new maxtor 20 gig drive, reloaded the software and the system now has been running for last two weeks with no problems....
Thanks for all the help!
BTW, I chickened out on dual booting linux on the server machine at this time....but I did do a dual boot installation, to play with on my client machine. The linux install was easy except Im having a config prob and cant start X yet. I will discuss that problem in a future post, if I cant figure out the problem soon. I suspect a video card prob now....
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