Mud on your motherboard?!?!?! Holy Schmidt!@
I suggest you buy some isopropol alcohol and q-tips
and maybe some really soft rags and get that mud off
of that board. Simple dust can cause heat build up
and electrical disturbances on a motherboard which
translate to random locks, crashes, corrupted data and
so on.
Unplug the board from all electrical input, pull all
of the peripherals off (i'd take everything off, cpu,
ram, all of it.) And wipe it down gently with a
slightly dampened with that alcohol rag/q-tip until it
is all clean. You will probably see a bit of an
improvement in your overall performance and stability.
You will definately increase the life expectancy of
your computer.
It is my experience that kde seems a bit slow when
coming form wandows. I've got 384 megs of ram and it
still isn't FAST but it is stable as all hell and fast
enough that I never get frustrated with it.
Good luck!!!
Dacia
--- Darryl Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Glasscock wrote:
> >
> > Swap can only use the same amount of HD space as
> you have RAM. It
> > makes no sense to create a large swap partion
> unless you have immenent
> > plans to increase the amount of RAM you have in
> your machine, which
> > with linux is always a good thing to do.
>
> Ok, there seems to be as many opinions on this issue
> as there are linux
> users. I've heard that you should have twice the
> amount of swap space as
> you do ram.
>
> > The only problem with DiskDrake (and it is only a
> minor quibble) is
> > that you can't easily manipulate where you want
> your partitions to
> > go. You have to think and plan ahead, and then
> set them sequentially,
> > ideally starting with a 32 MB /boot partition at
> the front of the
> > disk, then your / partition, usw.
>
> Ok, I think I'm in good shape here. The first 32
> cylinder (16m) is my
> /boot partition, cylinders 33-19818 (9738m) is my /
> partition, and the
> the remaining cylinders, 19819-19885 are my 32m swap
> partition.
>
> > Your system may be maxed out on ram, and I don't
> think I would spend
> > much on it.
>
> Nope, two of my four slots are open.
>
> > However, its usefulness is far from over. It
> would make
> > a decent print server or firewall. How big is
> your harddrive? How
> > fast is it?
>
> The hd. is a WD 10 gig, IDE, less than six months
> old. I don't have
> permission to few /var/log/dmesg, so I can't give
> you the details at the
> moment.
>
> > Newbies
> > probably NEVER touch their swap anyway until they
> have become familiar
> > with downloading source code and doing recompiles
> of the kernal. Once
> > you do that, you graduate to the next level :-)
>
> Ok, the motivation for this endeavor was my
> roomate's comment that "its
> slow," refering to KDE. I thought I might speed
> things up with more swap
> space. I certainly have no complaints!
>
> My roomate is biased though, he thinks I'm wasting
> my time with linux,
> and this is after he spent $8k for a six month Help
> Desk course for
> Windoze NT/2000.
>
> Also, I'm very fond of this box. Last Septemeber it
> was under 30 feet of
> water when Floyd flooded Bound Brook, NJ. My roomate
> literally pulled it
> out of the mud, which still clings to the
> motherboard. (I'm afraid to
> clean it off, if it's not broke, don't fix it.) All
> I did was replace
> the HD and monitor, and voila, I had my first 586.
>
> > Hope this is informative, and please correct me if
> I'm wrong.
>
> Every post on this list is informative, and
> appreciated.
>
> Darryl Gibson
> Linux Neophyte (tm)
> RLU # 182668
> This computer is 100% Microsoft FREE
>
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