i ave used dapper drake for almost 2 years and it has been very stable. But about a month ago i installed 7.10 gutsy and it has troubled me from the day one.
My machine: AMD Athlon 64, ASUS K8S-MX motherboard with SiS 760GX / 965L Chipset.  Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter. Samsung 80 GB SATA  HDD and LG 700E Monitor.

I have 2 main problems:
1. Gutsy freezes frequently and has to be restarted by cutting out power. This happens in many situations: starting the update manager, starting firefox, opening a new webpage, or any other program doing something like reading data from the internet. The freeze ups happen usually only when machine is booted up fresh. I mean in the first few minutes. If gutsy has run for a while it continues without a problem(usually).
2. The graphics of the desktop keep on going awry. the icons disappear  and re appear my moving mouse over the area. sometime a long webpage goes bad and half part scrolls while the other part get stuck on the screen. In graphics problem gutsy is not completely unresponsive and if i at that moment either logout or simply come out by using 'switch user' command and then re enter, the graphics become ok.
3. another graphics problem is gray patches and discolouration appearing on the desktop menu bar. This usuallu happen when some window of a program is open like firefox or open office writer.

i have been told that the problem may be due to integrated SiS graphics. I  also feel there could be a hard disk issue because typically i boot up, click on the update manager, the manager starts reading from internet and the vibration noise of the hard disk increases a lot and system goes into a complete freeze.
A point to be noted is that dapper never had any such problem.
Any help/input appreciated

regards
nanbudh


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