i hope someone can help with the following:

when clicking on an application the egg timer in the taskbar revolves and the cursor bounces for about 30 secs, then nothing!

this happens with various apps, eg openoffice, home folder. sometimes the taskbar diappears after it is clicked, sometimes the k menu won't appear. sometimes everything seems to work normally

bizarre thing is that w98 works fine - only known case of w98 outperforming linux?!?

affects live cd and hdd install

hardware athlon 2600, 512 ram, asrock k7s41gx mobo, excelstor 40gb hdd

could the hardware have developed a fault? i seem to remember it working ok

tia, john