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11.04 randomly gets black screen with scrolling hex stuff

Asked by Dick

get black screen with scrolling hex white stuff. I can usually get back into firefox screen by moving the mouse all over the screen to get my original screen back. Gets same thing with firefox or chrome.
It appears to be a "TERMINAL" screen that takes up the whole window.

Usually cannot shutdown using the shutdown option - just hangs - so I have to press power off.

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Dick (oldcoot999) said : 		#1

Got this email message from MARCOBRA:
                       Project: Ubuntu => xorg in Ubuntu

I don't know what it means???

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

Please deeply check your RAM memory booting from live cd or by pressing Shift at boot an by selecting the memtest item...

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Dick (oldcoot999) said : 		#3

Selected Memtest86 from the GRUB screen
Results as displayed:

Memtest86+ V4.10

Pentium M (0.09) 1696 MHz
L1 Cache : 32K 19477 MB/s
L2 Cache : 2048K 8965 MB/s
L3 Cache : None
Memory : 991M 889 MB/s |----------------------------------------------------------------
Chipset : intel i855GM /GME/ FSB: 99MHz/ Mobile Platform
Settings: RAM : 132MHz (DDR264) / CAS : 2.5-3-3-6
                                84K e820 off
Memory SPD Informations
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Rest of screen all blank

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