Major Ubuntu problems

[Raymond]

> Ive seen this problem before.  It seems to happen most with P4's. 
> Basically you have a kernel installed on your system that is able to run
> on any ia32 system.  But, I have found that on some P4's it runs like
> crap and you get the behavior your experiencing.  To fix this you need
> to install a 686 kernel.  You can do this by installing the linux-686
> package(if you have a pentium 2, 3, or 4, or linux-k7 if you have any
> athlon).  This should make your system perform as you expect it. 

Applied the 686 kernel and rebooted; so far so good; will know for sure
in the next day or so and update status.

Many thanks.

Raymond