When it starts up, it only sees 128mb of ram - even when I changed the ram (to something wholley inappropriate that I thought could work) it still booted up with 128mb Ram... even with the ram slots empty, it still loaded up with 128mb Ram - the same amount of ram on the geforce card... so it's definitely using resources from the gfx card.
I can't find where to look for the system specs in Ubuntu to find out for sure whats going on, but I'm really suspecting that something is afoot in the memory department...
Was contemplating hooking the pc up to the internet and finding/installing the MoBo drivers - see if that helps... (or not)
I already saved this computer once from being launched from a window - it might not be so lucky next time... only *I* will be doing the launching!!
And who the heck put tetris in the games on Ubuntu? thats the most addictive game on the planet!! (where my afternoon went when I wasn't swearing)
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Sorted!! Went into bios and q-flashed it... it now sees all the Ram
I feel soooo much better now!