newbie with a ?

[pointswest]

Hi all , I loaded full monty on a system  .. quad core 4 gig ram ati 7770 vid card and 1 tb  sata drive ... I'm having issues with freezing of system .. whenever I try to open a program ... taking over a minute on some ..
 I'm thinking I'll just reformat and try the install again .. or maybe a 32 bit version ? ... anybody seen this happen before?
thanks in advance

[The Chief]

I would try the 32 bit version - there has been no official release of the 64 bit version, so it isn't really ready yet.

[µT6]

+1

also, try a pae kernel once installed the 32bit version

about the freezings and slowness of the hard disk, have you verified your hard disk?  surface test to see if there is damaged sectors?

also memtest to discard problems with your ram

[Old-Polack]

Hi all , I loaded full monty on a system  .. quad core 4 gig ram ati 7770 vid card and 1 tb  sata drive ... I'm having issues with freezing of system .. whenever I try to open a program ... taking over a minute on some ..
 I'm thinking I'll just reformat and try the install again .. or maybe a 32 bit version ? ... anybody seen this happen before?
thanks in advance

FullMonty is a 32 bit version. There will, at some time, be a 64 bit version, but not yet. When you downloaded the image, what was the exact full name? Did you check the md5sum of the image? Did you burn the image to a DVD disk, or create a liveUSB as the installation medium? If a DVD disk, did you check the md5sum of the burned disk? Did you do a full upgrade after the installation? Have you run memtest to check for RAM errors?

[pointswest]

Thanks for the reply's .. I'll use active disk to check the drive, I had burned the iso  to a dvd , but must admit , I didnt verify sums

[Rudge]

Thanks for the reply's .. I'll use active disk to check the drive, I had burned the iso  to a dvd , but must admit , I didnt verify sums

You could try to start a program and in a terminal, run "top" to see what's slowing things down.

 

[russell.eberhardt]

You could try to start a program and in a terminal, run "top" to see what's slowing things down.

Perhaps easier for a newbie; Start System Monitor (PC Menu>More applications>Monitoring>System Monitor).  This will give you an ordered list of running processes.  Then start your program and watch what happens at the top of the list.

Russell.