Main screen turn on

After further work, my main rig is back in action again... minus the Xeon upgrade.

I thought I had memory issues but with some versions of Linux and some motherboards, running MEMTEST from the GRUB menu causes the program to freeze... which was what I was seeing.

I boot to a 'universal boot disk' via CD and run MEMTEST - and my memory is good.

That leaves just the motherboard or the new to me Xeon chip. I'll miss the extra threads but my system boots normally now.

Sometimes it's best to leave things that are working alone.

-m