I hadn't tried burning the Cd at a slow speed, and it
sounded like a good idea. But it's still acting the same way. I had
noticed that if it gets to a certain point and before it shuts off,
the screen scrambles and I get about 16 horizontal lines and a square
box full of static in the center. Then starting from the right side,
the screen looks like a movie screen would if the film gets jammed in
fromt of the lens, and starts to burn away. No damage to the scren of
course, but I thought I would try plugging in a monitor I had. No
difference. Then I plugged in another keyboard. Same deal.

I'm wondering that since this isn't a straight edition of Ubuntu,
rather one with a CNC program already there, would it be helpful to
get a download or a CD that only has Ubuntu on it?