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Originally Posted by grandmaster

Ok, fresh install ready for tonights battle with wireless...

Bring it on lol

Oh well, hopefully that will clear things up for you.
I would have asked if the machine works fine with a wired connection or if you had another router you could try it with. Certainly seems strange but after the few months i`ve had with Routers nothing would surprise me.

My own router issues these last few months were nothing to do with security or connecting and more to do with them just dying completely.
One of our own and one of Virgins i`ve had die on me this year. Better yet was the the new Dlink Virgin sent me a week or so ago being completely dead when it arrived.....even with a replacement power supply. I would have sworn there was some kind router curse put on me at that point, if i was that way inclined..
That Dlink asides though i had thought my lads PS3 was causing the problems we first started having but it turned out that the 2 Routers in question were on their way out regardless. Everythings fine now of course and i even have a new Netgear from Virgin lying there if i ever need it. Now plugging that power supply unit in for the first time was far more interesting than it should have been.

Just get yourself a USB stick, a copy of Unetbootin and just find the distro that works best on that machine. You could try Lucid if you want to stick with the *buntu setup. It`s obviously not out for a couple of weeks yet but i`ve never let that stop me.

Originally Posted by Hiroki

At the time the screen just froze and I had to hold the power button to force it to shut down and I then removed the drive and restarted the pc, tried again and it just went to the grub screen.


NTFS which had just been error checked in windows7 and was fine. I was going to use it in ubuntu as an external drive for that

Is it the actual Grub screen it`s now sticking(?) at, the one with the available boot options or is it a prompt of some sort? If you do have a prompt you can type at what does it say? it might be your username or "grub-rescue>" or just "grub>" even.

It could be the grub that`s corrupt although that usually spits back some kind of error at you....re-installing it might help but that`s a little more convoluted with Grub2 nowadays than it used to be with the original Grub re-installation.
The User Errors section in here explains how though.
Not something i`ve ever had to do thankfully....yet anyway.

Perhaps the Grandmaster approach might have proved even quicker by now, if you didn`t have tooo much to back up of course..

2 strange seeming problems guys but mabey the OP or someone might be able to help were i obviously cant.