Mark wrote; > >try reinstalling and this time don't do the HDD optimization. I don't > >think with a drive that big and a system as efficient as linux that you're > >going to really need to worry about optimizing, and I suspect that there > >is a small , but apparently noticable enough hardware conflict going on > >there. I also suspect that it will all evaporate as soon as you install > >without optimizing. And evaporate it certainly did. You were all correct in spotting that this problem was of my own making! In my defence I'll say I was distracted by the fact that the installer didn't recognise all my RAM. I entered the correct value, probably clicking the HDD optimisation, then clicking Ok without fully reading the note. It went like a dream when I did it properly! So I spent this evening playing around with the KDE desktop... looking forward to the months of learning ahead. Sigh! My thanks to all who helped out. Regards Lance
