freezing up

[helen johnson]

On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 21:28 +0000, Steve Flynn wrote:
> On 11/12/06, helen johnson <helenjohns40 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>         hi, could anyone tell me what to do to stop the freezing up?
>         I am running ubuntu Linux mint edgy 6.10 on a hp pavilion, a
>         264 w, with
>         amd athalon xp,..but it happens with all the Linux distros  I
>         load up!
>         and it takes time after time trying, to install Linux! please
>         help?? 
> 
> When you say "freezing up" is there no response at all from the
> machine. Do the keyboard lights work, for example, after the machine
> has locked?
> 
> Is there anything in the syslog? 
> What are your boot parameters? ACPI enabled or not?
> 
> -- 
> Steve   thank you for ur kind reply steve" well to be right honest
> with you I am computer dumb, and dont realy understand what acpi
> means,...when it dose this,freez up i mean, it just sits there with
> what ever i was doing on it,like the web site still open! just like a
> still frame picture" mouse curser wont move" key bord dead", only
> thing to do is reach over and push the on/off button, and let it
> reboot,...and sometimes it will last for a while and die again!
> Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black...