<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Hi gurus, I am running 32bit Lucid on a Lenovo 3000 N200 laptop with 4Gb ram. Following upgrading from the previous version I have had a few problems at startup. I will list them in the order which they manifested themselves. I am not suggesting that there is any connection between any of the 'symptoms' but who knows. 1. The first thing that I noticed was that before I get to the login splash screen that there was a considerable amount of 'noise' or 'interference' on a black screen. (This also occurs when shutting down. I have tried all of the three proprietary Nvidia drivers with no success. (I can live with this and didn't get too excited ... at first.) 2. Recently, the system has been booting up and has loading a terminal window at start-up. The system is not configured to remember open programs when shutting down. I always close every running program at shutdown. 3. Today, the machine has started booting up without displaying the splash screen and goes straight into my login without any password. Any clues as to what is going on in respect of any or all of the above will be gratefully received! Where should I be looking? TIA Bob Giles </body> </html>