Tired of freezing laptop

[Karl Larsen]

Pat Brown wrote:
> I'm getting very tired of having my PC freeze up almost every time I go 
> online. I'm using Hardy on a Compaq Presario C700, with a Broadcom B43 
> wireless card. I apply every update the update manager detects. I've 
> been running Hardy since it was released and this problem is ongoing. It 
> doesn't seem to matter what I am doing online, eventually it will freeze 
> and require a soft boot using CTRL+ALT+Backspace.
    It seems from what you say that your using kubuntu. I do not and it 
adds confusion to the problem. But for sure sounds like a hardware 
problem on your laptop. Of course Windows XP works fine and I do not 
know why.


>  I've run some of the 
> tests people have suggested but the results mean nothing to me - I 
> posted them once and never heard any comments on whether it showed anything.
>
>   
    It was not picked up by anyone for some reason. Send the results to 
me and I will try to figure it out.
> I also can't watch YouTube videos at all on Konquerer. Sometimes I can 
> watch them on Firefox 3.0.1 but it too will shut down without warning.
>   
    You have to have the proper software installed in Firefox. I forget 
what it is but someone else will tell us.

> I recently picked up an almost new PC which I was originally going to 
> install Ubuntu on. Now I'm reconsidering and think I'm going to go back 
> to XP so I can watch videos and surf without this hassle all the time. 
>   
    Please do load Ubuntu Hardy on this new computer! And please at 
least stay with Gnome until it is updated and working fine. I bet it 
will load and just work like mine did. Load it dual boot so you have the 
best of both windows and Ubuntu.

> I'll keep Ubuntu on my laptop because I like it, but I don't like this 
> problem and until it's fixed I need an alternative that's more reliable.
>
>   
Karl


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