Ubuntu Failure - Help Resetting

[yoda]

Glad to hear it's all working again :)

Sounds like you got a repair-install, given your cookies etc are still there.  Great!

1. In Firefox, go to Edit | Preferences - then pick the "Content" tab.  You should see settings there for fonts.  If it does not list the likes of Arial and Times New Romsan, you can install the package  "msttcorefonts" which has Arial, Trebuchet, Times New Roman, Verdana and some other Windows fonts

2. Can't help you with the wireless network.  I gave up on wireless a long time ago

3. See http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/set-windows-as-default-os-when-dual-booting-ubuntu/

[den160593]

Sweet got both to work. Thanks heaps!!

[Wang Solutions]

Well done - now you are an expert!    biggrin

[veebee]

I have an "Ubuntu failure" of sorts... and it cropped up a while back.. dont know how or why it "fixed" itself , but it's doing it again.

I will come downstairs here to the computers after not attending them for a few hours and they are all in "screensaver/ sleep mode " (whatever.. no images, just black.) and they all wake up except for one...

the fans, both case and cpu are running..no HDD activity (according to light), and no amount of anything can wake it... even a 4 lb lump hammer !

sometimes, if I press a gazillion keys, wiggle the mouse too much etc, it WILL all of a sudden show some text on the screen.. no idea what it is saying...

Just wondering if anyone else has had this prob?

EDIT: forgot to mention.. when it is restarted, it "winds up" in cpu speed... with Gkrellm monitoring, it starts around 40% and slowly (over 20 seconds) winds up to 100% processor speed/ use.

[clownius]

This may be a silly response but could this be a hardware issue?  U can go through the old reinstall and if that doesnt help id vote hardware if its only one of your systems and they all have similar installs.

[yoda]

I'd be inclined to put it down to hardware as well.  I have had the same issue occasionally on two computers. 

In one case it was due to faulty RAM (which I exchanged at the shop, only to get a second set of faulty RAM). 

In the other it seems to have been due to too much overclocking - as soon as I wound it back a tad, the problem stopped recurring.

[clownius]

I wont even go into the troubles im having with my gaming PC atm.  Cant even OC the thing it locks up and reboots regularly Overclocked or not.  Cant find a faulty piece anywhere even sent it to the PC store for a look when i couldnt get past BIOS at one point and it mysteriously came good once the HDD was unplugged......plugged it back in and all good again..... going insane here.