Thats most likely because you are booting a system that was build on your old box...different hardware, totally. I've had something like that happen to me when I booted a kernel from old system into new one (different architectures, 486->Pentium). System booted, but behaved very badly. Same story with Windows. I'd try to do a clean install somewhere on a partition you dont need. Andrei
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