Quote Originally Posted by efc View Post
Yes egghead, the sepmpron 754 is a 64 bit processor.

You did have some good suggestions. My memory was from two manufacturers. I ordered another 512 MB stick to have a matched pair. I also ordered a sata HD. Should not have made a difference, but I will leave no stone unturned.

I won't comment any more for a few days to allow parts time to get here.
Ubuntu is suitable for both desktop and server use. The current Ubuntu release supports PC (Intel x86), 64-bit PC (AMD64), UltraSPARC T1 (Sun Fire T1000 and T2000) and PowerPC (Apple iBook and Powerbook, G4 and G5) architectures.
http://www.ubuntu.com/

64bit download:
http://ubuntu-releases.cs.umn.edu//6...ktop-amd64.iso

And this thread:
http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic....ighlight=64bit

discusses the 64bit solution to Xandros, apart from running the server version.