Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

I'm in Kansas City. Last spring I built myself a new computer as I usually do every couple of years. This time I added a new case and moved the dvd, cd, and video card leaving me with an empty case and motherboard. Just before Christmas, I thought I'd play with some different flavors of linux, because I was able to to boot the old Foxconn from usb.

Something peculiar happened. If I visited weather.com with Firefox, the computer would turn itself off. It would happen once and a while doing something else and some...