"Welome to localhost.localdomain" at login?

[SuperKev]

Well, seems like no matter what I do, this POS will eventually freeze up, seems to be delayed at least if I use XDM as opposed to GDM but I just came back to it and the screen saver was frozen up and I had to hard reboot.

Only other thing I can think of is the older, and weak, AGP card I am using might have a part in it, but I don't have another AGP card lying around to confirm it.

Awfully strange though because in my experience PCLOS works well on lots of different hardware.

[CaptainSarcastic]

Have you run memtest on that machine?  If you haven't already I would definitely start there, then test the hard drives and remove any add-in cards that aren't necessary.  I'd test the hardware before spending any more time troubleshooting software.

[longtom]

Have you run memtest on that machine?  If you haven't already I would definitely start there, then test the hard drives and remove any add-in cards that aren't necessary.  I'd test the hardware before spending any more time troubleshooting software.

+1

Lots of guys here run Gnome and Zen-Mini (which appears to be the new craze .. )  and having not any of the show stopping problems you have.  If it is not the software chances are it's hardware, taking into consideration that you had

a ton of issues with this new pc I acquired

.

Hope you get it sorted!

[SuperKev]

Ran memtest-86, no errors. Everything else had been checked and/or removed previously.

I seems to be some issue with using GDM, although it will still freeze up when using XDM it seems to take much longer for that to happen, just recently I let it run using XDM for 24+ hours and it was ok. So I have no idea at this point. Is there some difference between GDM, XDM or even KDM for that matter that could be causing this?

The only parts of this bloody thing I haven't replaced are the CPU and Motherboard. I took out all superfluous addon cards and only have the GFX card left.

I am leaning now to it being a software based issue, but what software and what issue I have no idea. GDM is the only thing I can come up with. 

[SuperKev]

So as not leave this hanging, I finally gave up on the P4 and switched out my old gamer to be my work station and it's all working no issues, but oddly when I switched it over to the new case- switched everything MoBo, RAM, PSU- but it would not POST, so I took the RAM from the P4 machine and viola!!

Which is odd because I suspected the RAM might be the cause of the lock ups and the RAM that was in the gamer was pretty high quality and was confirmed working about two weeks ago, I still don't think 4 sticks went bad all at the same time but...

Anyhow, now I have an Asrock Dual 939 MoBo, AMD 64 3200+ CPU@ 2.0 GHz, 2 GB PC3200 RAM and an ATI X850XT PE GFX card and everything including sleep/suspend seems to be working flawlessly. I guess PCLOS just did not like the older hardware. Lesson learned: Even Linux works best on up-to-date hardware.

I may try to stitch a system together with the P4 chassis later with Windows and see if I can sell it off. Shame because on paper it seems like a well spec'd machine.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to lend advice, Happy Thanksgiving to those in the US.

[Was_Just19]

It may be a timing issue with the ram.

In some BIOSes there is an adjustment you can make ......  maybe cutting back the speed of the ram might get the reliability that is needed?

Underclock it ....

[skyhawk]

Basic power conservation options on my old Dell desktop are controlled through the system BIOS. Look at your computer's BIOS to see what options are provided.